Miscellaneous Works. SIDNEY (Sir Philip).

With a Life of the Author and Illustrative Notes by William Gray, Esq. of Magdalen College, and the Inner Temple.

Title printed in red and black with printer's device.

First Edition. Large Paper Copy. 8vo. [242 x 148 x 45 mm]. vii, [iii], 69, [1], 329 pp. Bound in contemporary half green goatskin, marbled paper sides, the spine divided into six panels by raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. (Sides rubbed with some surface loss to paper, tips of the corners a little worn).
Oxford: printed and published by D. A. Talboys, 1829

With the half-title and errata slip at the end. Some spotting or light foxing mostly confined to the preliminaries, but a good copy. It is a large paper copy on heavy "J Whatman 1828" paper, probably one of only 50. It has the armorial bookplate of Charles Porter and the modern label of John Porter.

Uniform in style with the Oxford English Classics issued by Talboys and Wheeler in association with William Pickering from 1825-28. It contains all of Sidney's works except for Arcadia and the Psalms and some letters were published here for the first time.

Stock no. ebc7696