The shepheards calender : conteyning twelue aeglogues, proportionable to the twelue moneths : entituled, to the noble and vertuous gentleman, most worthy of all tytles, both of learning and chiualrie, Maister Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser's 1597 pastoral poetry collection The Shepheardes Calender, printed in London by Thomas Creede for the bookseller John Harrison, dedicated to Philip Sidney and arranged as twelve eclogues by the months. The woodcuts show shepherds in open landscapes with sheep, a sky with clouds and birds, and buildings on hills, with a rustic, bold line a designer could borrow for pastoral or seasonal graphics.
