Sidney (Sir Philip, Knight), The Countess of Pembroke's Arca...

Hammer

£350

Sidney (Sir Philip, Knight), The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia [...], With his Life and Death; a brief Table of the principal heads, and som (sic) other new Additions, tenth edition, London: Printed by William Du-Gard: and are to bee (sic) sold by George Calvert, at the half Moon in the new buildings in Paul's Church-yard; and Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Paul's Church-yard, 1655, lacking frontispiece, mispaginated in places, collating: [xxxii], 624, [26]pp; i.e. A2-5, b-d⁴, B⁶-³I⁶, ³K¹, foxed and browned in places, overall good, ink stains to pages 142 & 143 but not affecting legibility, repaired tears to page 259/260, further lighter and discreet repairs of a professional standard in some places throughout, never affecting text, later marginal worm trails in places, bound in 17th c style panelled calf in the later 20th c by J. Henderson, signed, tooled and ruled in contrasting gilt and blind, morocco lettering pieces, spine gently sunned, contemporary 17th c red-stained edges, later endpapers and blanks, loosely-inserted typed bibliographic notes and a late 18th/early 19th c portrait engraving of Sidney, folio (29.5 x 21cm)

Provenance: Lord Rivers, engraved armorial bookplate to pastedown.