The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... fixed a notable Epistle signed ' H. S., '6 pointing out the errors of the fgrmer, and claiming for the new all '4 authority. Who 'H. S.' was has never been discovered. The ' S.' suggests one of the family; but the 'H.' perplexes. From 1590 to 1725 the 'Arcadia was a 'quick' book in successive (folio) editions. Of certain of these, more in the sequel. 'Astrophel and Stella' was first published in 1591. There were three editions of this year. The first, which has been designated 'surreptitious, ' 1 bears this title-page: 'Syr P. S. his Astrophel and Stella. Wherein the excellence of Sweete Poesie is concluded. To the end of which are added sundry other rare Sonnets of diuers Noblemen and Gentlemen. At London, Printed for Thomas Newman, Anno Domini 1591' (4to). A second edition of 1591 has this title-page: 'Sir P. S. his Astrophel and Stella. Wherein the excellence of Sweete Poesie is concluded. At London, Printed for Thomas Newman, 1591.' The former contains forty-four leaves, this thirty e See the Epistle in extenso at close of our Notes and Illustrations to 'Astrophel and Stella, ' &c. in vol. iii. 7 By Mr. Collier, as before, p. cxv. and Bib. Catalogue, s.n. two leaves only; the latter omitting the 'sundiy other rare Sonnets, ' and the Epistles of the Publisher and Thomas Nash. A third edition, 'At London, Printed for Matthew Lownes, ' corresponds with the first. A copy is in the Bodleian (Malone), and is without date; but another copy, at Bntwell,8 is dated, like the otheis, 1591; not 1595, the date assigned to it by Mr. Hazlitt (Bibliography of Old English Literature, f. .). Of the relative authority of these editions I shall hereafter speak. The 'Arcadia' of 1598 first published the set of Poems that in all the after folio0