The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Category
Books
Date
1598
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
NT 3196783
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 576 p. ; fol. Imperfect: wants initial blank leaf. Pencil price: £1/. Bookseller's ticket: Sold by Cano J. Ollier, booksellers & stationers, public library, 14 Vere St, Bond St. $zSeventeenth-century manuscript on final leaf. Occasional ink marking and annotation in text. Loosely inserted: plate of Countess of Pembroke memorial sculpture. Provenance: nineteenth-century seal bookplate: Farnborough Library. (Lower secion of plate overlaid by new part with motto.) Endpaper inscribed: Henry Smythe. Titlepage and dedication inscribed: Robert Moreton His Book 1740. Early ink inscription on titlepage: Fra: Tuckes[?]. Binding: seventeenth-century calf; blind roll and fillet border; gilt cornerpieces; gilt on spine. (Spine damaged and partly missing.)
Makers and roles
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)