The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Category
Books
Date
1633
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3027548
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 624 p. . fol.. Imperfect: lacking the initial blank leaf; title page torn and crumpled (some loss of engraved border). Some water-cockling. Rough stamps of armorial seal (unidentifiable) on pp. 34 and 363. Scribbles (seventeenth-century hand) on end flyleaf, incl.calculations and doggerel: 'And if the man such praises have / then what must I that keep the knave'.. Provenance: Signatures (seventeenth-century) on end flyleaf: Rich: Rob[er]ts; Cha Done. Signature on title page C[...] Done. bookplate.: Lord Brownlow's Grantham House.. Binding: Calf (seventeenth-century), blind double rules. Very worn and torn (top corner of front board loose). In conservation wrapper.
Makers and roles
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Richard Bellings (d.1677) Hugh Sanford (d.1607) Sir William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (c.1567 - 1640)