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The defence of poesie ; A letter to Q. Elizabeth ; A defence of Leicester / by Sir Philip Sidney ; edited by G.E. Woodberry.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Merrymount Press 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586, author.
- Constable, Henry, 1562-1613, author.
- Series:
- Humanists' library ; 4.
- The humanists' library ; IV
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.
- Elizabeth.
- Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 1532?-1588.
- Leicester, Robert Dudley.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printers' devices (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Unopened edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Montallegro.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Merrymount Press (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, [1], 126, [2] pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : The Merrymount Press, MDCCCCVIII [1908]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- To the reader [by Henry Olney]
- Foure sonnets written by Henrie Constable to Sir Phillip Sidneys soule
- The defence of poesie
- A letter to Queen Elizabeth perswading her not to marry with the Duke of Anjou. Anno 1580
- A discourse in defence of the Earl of Leicester. Anno 1584.
- Notes:
- "Of this volume, with initials and colophon by Herbert P. Horne and title page by W.A. Dwiggins, CCCIII copies were printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston, Massachusetts, in the month of May, MDCCCCVIII"--Colophon.
- Printed in black and red. Printer's device at end.
- "Type, Montallegro"--Updike.
- Binding: quarter tan cloth over dark blue paper boards; gold-stamped brown leather spine label ("THE DEFENCE OF POESIE &c. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY"); deckled edges with fore- and tail edges untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("The Property of The Merrymount Press Boston") on front pastedown.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in paper slip printed with invitation to an exhibition at The Grolier Club 17 November-14 January 1940 with manuscript note ("Pierre Nolhac Petrarch and the Ancient World 1907") in pencil on verso.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: most leaves unopened at head edge.
- Cited in:
- Updike, D.B. Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work, 302 (page 138)
- Contains:
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Apologie for poetrie.
- OCLC:
- 2888157
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