The Coronation.... 1640. _See_ BEAUMONT, Francis, and FLETCHER, John.
SIDNEY, _Sir_ PHILIP.
¦An Apologie for Poetrie. Written by the right noble, vertuous, and
learned, Sir Phillip Sidney, Knight. Odi profanum vulgus, et arceo. _At
London, Printed for Henry Olney, and are to be sold at his shop in
Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the George, neere to Cheap-gate.
Anno_. 1595.¦
4^o. (7 × 5). S. 18. 2.
Collation: A-L^4, unpaged. Wanting sig. A and L 4 (A 1 and L4 ?
blank). The two leaves after the titlepage contain address to the
reader signed Henry Olney, list of errata, and four sonnets by
Henry Constable. There appears to have been another issue the same
year differing in titlepage and preliminary matter only. It is
entitled 'The Defence of Poesie', is printed for William Ponsonby
and does not contain the Constable sonnets. It was under this title
and without the sonnets that it was included among the collected
works in the 'Arcadia'.
Sinker 814. BM 1405.
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, written by Sir Philippe Sidnei.
_London Printed by Iohn Windet, for william Ponsonbie. Anno Domini_,
1590.
4^o. (7-1/4 × 5-1/4). R. 10.
With the Sidney arms on the titlepage. Collation: A^4B-2Z^8, folios
numbered. Wanting A 1 (? blank). Epistle dedicatory to the Countess
of Pembroke, signed. Printer's note. This first edition is
imperfect, breaking off in the middle of the third book. The
division into chapters and the arrangement of the verse was the
work of the 'ouer-seer of the print'. The edition seems probably to
have been printed from a corrected copy of the first portion of the
romance left by Sidney in the hands of Fulke Greville, afterwards
Lord Brooke (see Greville to Walsingham, August 23, 1586, in the
State Papers, quoted by O. Sommer in Introd. to facsimile edition,
1891). The remainder of the romance was made up by the Countess of
Pembroke from Sidney's loose papers, and published by Ponsonby in
1593. The rarity of the present edition suggests that the
publication of the complete work was intrusted to Ponsonby on
condition of his recalling the earlier issue. The 1590 edition
cannot be regarded as surreptitious, but there was an attempt at a
surreptitious edition in 1586, of which Ponsonby gave warning to
Greville. This seems to be the only recorded copy having the
printer's name on the titlepage, which is otherwise printed from
the same setting up of the type. The text is identical, but slight
differences in the type seem to point to the present being the
earlier issue.
Sinker 634. BM 1405.
The Countesse Of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight.
Now the sixt time published, with some new Additions. Also a supplement
of a defect in the third part of this Historie, By Sir W. Alexander.
_London, Printed by W. S. for Simon Waterson._ 1627.
F^o. (11-1/4 × 7-1/2). F. 7.
Title within ornamental border. Collation: three leaves unsigned,
A-3F^6, paged. Epistle dedicatory to the Countess of Pembroke,
signed. Address to the reader signed H. S. Alexander's addition
occupies sigs. 2E 2-2F 5, and at the end is a note signed S. W. A.
At sig. 2S 2 begins a sixth book with separate titlepage: 'A sixth
Booke, to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia: Written by R. B. of
Lincolnes Inne Esquire. Sat, si bene; si male, nimium. London,
Printed by H. L. and R. Y. 1628.'. Address to the reader signed R.
B. (_i.e._ Richard Beling). At the end of the 'Arcadia' are
Sidney's miscellaneous poems, 'Defence of Poesie', 'Astrophel and
Stella' and the entertainment at Wansted ('The Lady of May'). This
is in reality the ninth edition.