Accession number
PML 15605
Creator
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.
Published
London : Printed for William Ponsonbie, 1590.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
First edition.
Notice about the "division and summing" of chapters at end of dedication.
Possibly edited by Matthew Gwinne and Fulke Greville.
Partly in verse.
The first leaf is blank.
A4v has a printer's note. Variant: A4v blank.
A variant (STC 22539) has Windet's name in imprint.
Title repaired.
Notice about the "division and summing" of chapters at end of dedication.
Possibly edited by Matthew Gwinne and Fulke Greville.
Partly in verse.
The first leaf is blank.
A4v has a printer's note. Variant: A4v blank.
A variant (STC 22539) has Windet's name in imprint.
Title repaired.
Description
[6] p., 360 leaves ; 20 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Occasional underlinings and marginal annotations. Reader's note: "The end of the second booke 1662" (leaf Ii3v).
Provenance
Richard Farmer, signature (rear pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front pastedown); Anna Lenys, signature (leaf Ll8v); Elizabeth Bastard, signature (Rr7v); Edward and Etheldred Bellinger, signatures (leaf Yy4v); Frederick Locker-Lampson, "Jester" bookplate (leaf A1r); unidentified Sotheby's sale catalogue description, lot 122; William C. Van Antwerp; his sale, Sotheby's, July 1907, lot 211 via Quaritch to Morgan; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Half calf with marbled paper sides, repaired by Sanford and Clarke; in case.
Classification
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Department