The miscellaneous works of Sir Philip Sidney, knt. / with a life of the author and illustrative notes by William Gray.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.

Contributor:

• Gray, William, 1802?-1835.
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

• Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

• Traister, Daniel (donor) (inscription) (RBC copy)
• Traister, Barbara (donor) (inscription) (RBC copy)
• Eaton, Eleanor B. (autograph) (RBC copy)
• Iglehart, Ruth (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 380 pages : portrait ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Burnham, 1860.

Contents:

• Life
• Defence of poesy
• Astrophel and Stella
• Miscellaneous poems
• The lady of May
• Valour anatomized in a fancy
• Letter to Queen Elizabeth
• A discourse in defence of the Earl of Leicester
• Letters reprinted from the Sidney papers, Seward's Biographiana, etc.
• Letters from the unpublished originals in the British museum.

Local Notes:

• RBC copy has a few ms. marginal notes in pencil in text.
• RBC copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Daniel and Barbara Traister.
• RBC copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("Eleanor B. Eaton. Oct. 1893.") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.
• RBC copy has ms. letter from Ruth Iglehart to Daniel and Barbara Traister dated 5 June 1978 laid in.
• RBC copy bound by McNamee (Cambridge, Mass.), with his stamp on verso of front free endpaper, in three-quarter gold-ruled brown leather over marbled boards; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; red silk marker; gilt tops.

OCLC:

599101