Sir Philip Sidney / with twelve illustrations
1970, Facsimile Edition. Port Washington : Kennikat Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420557
ISBN: 0804610053
Physical description; xii, 381 pages portraits ; 22 cm. Notes; Facsimile reprint of the 1909 edition. Includes index. Contents; 1. The Philip Sidney of legend and fact -- 2. Early influences -- 3. School anad college days -- 4. Philip's entrance into public life, St. Bartholomew -- 5. Philip visits Italy and Germany -- 6. Philip's first mission -- 7. The New world -- 8. Family troubles -- 9. Events at court. Leicester's disgrace. Life in London -- 10. At Wilton -- 11. Financial troubles. Robbery and plans -- 12. Zutphen -- 13. Philip's Brothers -- 14. Dyer. Greville. Spenser. -- 15. Three famous contemporaries. Leicester, Du Mornay, and Languet -- 16. Sir Francis Walsingham -- 17. Penelope Devereux and the sonnets -- 18. Mary Sidney. The "Arcadia" and the defence of Poesy". Subjects; 1500-1599. Biographies. Great Britain Court and courtiers History 16th century. Poets, English Early modern Biography. Poets, English Early modern, 1500-1700. Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.
Price: €21.00