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Little wear to the cover. Black-and-white illustrations including of Sir Philip Sidney at frontis, tissue-guarded, and with lovely black-and-white engraved heads and tails, initials and historiated initials. Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 ? 17 October 1586) "was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a sonnet sequence, Astrophel and Stella, a treatise, The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poesie or An Apology for Poetrie) and a pastoral romance, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia," according to his Wikipedia entry. He was born in Ken of an aristocratic family, educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was never published in his lifetime but left behind 106 love sonnets that were published posthumously. He fought as a Protestant against Spanish Catholics, was shot in the thigh for his troubles "and died of gangrene 26 days later, at the age of 3
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