ISBN10: 0199558221, ISBN13: 9780199558223, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 2 volume set in very good condition.
[Birmingham, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]

Oxford University Press, Date: 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 9x4x6. A two volume set uniformly bound in dark blue hardback bindings with gilt lettered spines. Clean and fresh, firm and square, strong joints. Complete with original dustjackets, which are neat and sharp, not showing any rubs and chips. Contents crisp and tight; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Both books Look and feel unread. Thus a nearly new set of books in great shape offered for sale at a reasonable price. Includes nearly four hundred letters, with translations where necessary. The letters are accompanied by a detailed introduction discussing Sidney's life and the writing, sending, receiving, and reading of personal letters in the sixteenth-century, a textual introduction, biographical sketches of the correspondents, and explanatory notes. 1,464 Pages. Frontispiece to each volume; 20 black-and-white halftones. 2012. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199558221 9780199558223 [GB]

Oxford University Press 2012 First Edition Hardcover Like New in Like New jacket Size: 9x4x6; A two volume set uniformly bound in dark blue hardback bindings with gilt lettered spines. Clean and fresh, firm and square, strong joints. Complete with original dustjackets, which are neat and sharp, not showing any rubs and chips. Contents crisp and tight; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Both books Look and feel unread. Thus a nearly new set of books in great shape offered for sale at a reasonable price. Includes nearly four hundred letters, with translations where necessary. The letters are accompanied by a detailed introduction discussing Sidney's life and the writing, sending, receiving, and reading of personal letters in the sixteenth-century, a textual introduction, biographical sketches of the correspondents, and explanatory notes. 1, 464 Pages. Frontispiece to each volume; 20 black-and-white halftones.

ISBN10: 0199558221, ISBN13: 9780199558223, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney s correspondence. This young phenomenon-author, statesman, courtier, poet, and soldier-exchanged letters with some of the age s most influentia.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2012]
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ISBN10: 0199558221, ISBN13: 9780199558223, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]

ISBN10: 0199558221, ISBN13: 9780199558223, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Sir Philip Sidney is one of the most important authors of the Elizabethan era. He died at the age of 31 and in that time wrote the first great English novel, the Arcadia; the first major Petrarchan sonnet-sequence in English, the Astrophil and Stella; and the first important English critical text, the Defence of Poesy. His short life was extraordinarily eventful. He was the son of the Viceroy of Ireland and the nephew and heir of theQueen's favourite, the Earl of Leicester. At 17 he began a three-year tour of Europe, during which he was received at the Court of France, decorated by the French King, and got caught up in the St Bartholomew's Massacre. At 22 hewas chosen by the Queen as her representative on a diplomatic mission to the new Emperor, Rudolph II, in Vienna. At 30 he nearly left with Drake for the New World, but was sent instead to the Netherlands as part of English aid in their defensive war against the Spaniards. There he became Governor of Flushing, one of the three Dutch cautionary towns granted to England. At 31 he took the field and captured the town of Axel in a spectacular raid. A few months later he was wounded in a battleoutside Zutphen, and died of gangrene in October of 1586. During his lifetime he corresponded with a large number of learned and public figures all over Europe, from Clusius the Imperial botanist to RalphLane the ...
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ISBN10: 0199558221, ISBN13: 9780199558223, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 1381 pages. 9.50x6.75x5.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]

ISBN10: 0199558221, ISBN13: 9780199558223, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2012]