The shepheards calender : conteining twelue æglogues proportionable to the twelue monthes : entituled, to the noble and vertuous gentleman, most worthie of all titles, both of learning and chiualry, Maister Philip Sidney
The Shepheardes Calender is a 1591 London pastoral poetry collection by Edmund Spenser, printed by John Windet for the bookseller John Harrison and aimed at English readers of verse dedicated to Philip Sidney. Its woodcuts pair ornamental strapwork cartouches, with a grotesque mask flanked by two classical women, and small rustic scenes of shepherds, sheep, and hilly country under clouds, offering a designer compact models for decorative headpieces and pastoral vignettes.
