The shepheardes calender : conteining twelue aeglogues proportionable to the twelue monethes : Entitled to the noble and vertuous gentleman most worthie of all titles, both of learning and chiualry, Maister Philip Sidney
Spenser's The Shepheardes Calender, a set of twelve pastoral eclogues printed in London in 1586 by John Wolfe for John Harrison, dedicated to Philip Sidney and aimed at a literate English readership. The four woodcuts shown are monthly scenes of shepherds and farm labour with sheep, trees, hills and towns, each framed in a small rectangle with a month heading, offering a designer compact Elizabethan rural vignettes with strong outlines and dense hatched shading.
