[Early Printing] Sidney, Sir Philip, The Countesse of
[Early Printing] Sidney, Sir Philip
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
London: Printed by W(illiam). S(tansby, Humphrey Lownes)., and (Robert Young) for Simon Waterson, 1627 (i.e. 1628). Reprint ("Now the sixt [sic] time published, with some new additions"). Folio. (6), 624, (20) ("A Supplement to the Third Book of Arcadia") pp. Old mottled brown calf, rebacked, burgundy morocco spine label, small blistering and edge wear; lacking initial blank, title-page repaired and soiled, leaf pi3 and pi4 repaired, fore-edge corners of leaves A1-A4 repaired, repairs to leaves 2a2 -2b4, the 2 lines at foot of 2b4r supplied in ink manuscript, bottom fore-edge corners affected by damp, other damp-staining to text. STC 22547; ESTC S117301. Among the most significant literary achievements of the Elizabethan age.
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[Early Printing] Sidney, Sir Philip
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
London: Printed by W(illiam). S(tansby, Humphrey Lownes)., and (Robert Young) for Simon Waterson, 1627 (i.e. 1628). Reprint ("Now the sixt [sic] time published, with some new additions"). Folio. (6), 624, (20) ("A Supplement to the Third Book of Arcadia") pp. Old mottled brown calf, rebacked, burgundy morocco spine label, small blistering and edge wear; lacking initial blank, title-page repaired and soiled, leaf pi3 and pi4 repaired, fore-edge corners of leaves A1-A4 repaired, repairs to leaves 2a2 -2b4, the 2 lines at foot of 2b4r supplied in ink manuscript, bottom fore-edge corners affected by damp, other damp-staining to text. STC 22547; ESTC S117301. Among the most significant literary achievements of the Elizabethan age.