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The life of the renowned Sr Philip Sidney : with the true interest of England as it then stood in relation to all forrain princes, and particularly for suppressing the power of Spain stated by him : his principall actions, counsels, designes, and death : together with a short account of the maximes and policies used by Queen Elizabeth in her government / written by Sir Fulke Grevil, Knight, Lord Brook ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke, 1554-1628.
- Standardized Title:
- Life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586--Early works to 1800.
- Sidney, Philip.
- Politics and government.
- International relations.
- Authors, English.
- Great Britain.
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586.
- Authors, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--1558-1603--Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1558-1603--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Traister, Daniel (donor)
- Traister, Barbara (donor)
- Mamoth, Anne (autograph)
- Browne, John (autograph)
- Cave, Anne (former owner) (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 112, 109-153, 158-208, 201-247 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 15 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney
- Fingerprint:
- r,ld o-gh ofe- huof (3) 1652 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Henry Seile ..., MDCLII [1652, i.e. 1651]
- Notes:
- "Thomason received his copy 24 November 1651."--ESTC.
- Signatures: A⁴ B-R⁸.
- Numerous errors in pagination.
- Title within border of type ornaments; type ornament head-pieces.
- Initials.
- Dedication to the Countess of Sunderland signed: P.B.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front pastedown (detached from left board)
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Daniel and Barbara Traister.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph ("Anne Mamoth") in brown ink on front pastedown (detached from left board); dated 17th-century autograph ("Jo: Browne [...] 1667.") on front free endpaper; dated 18th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Anne Cave her Book the Gift of her Dear Mother 1760") on front free endpaper.
- Penn Libraries copy has three folded paper slips with booksellers' printed descriptions of this copy laid in.
- Penn Libraries copy has a printing fault with some loss of text on leaf H1v; a paper slip with the missing text supplied in ms. has been laid in.
- Penn Libraries copy has paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("737") in red ink on inside left board.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full early sprinkled calf; boards double-ruled in blind; spine rebacked; blind-ruled spine panels; all edges stippled red and brown(?); pastedowns detached from boards.
- Cited in:
- ESTC R208970
- Wing (2nd ed.) B4899
- Grolier. Wither to Prior, II, 407
- OCLC:
- 20775526
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