The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia
By: written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight
Edition: Now the ninth time published, with a twofold supplement of a defect in the third book: the one by Sr W.A. Knight; the other, by Mr Ia. Iohnstoun Scoto-Brit. dedicated to K. Iames, and now annexed to this work, for the readers benefit.
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: Printed [by Robert Young and Thomas Harper] for I. Waterson and R. Young [and T. Downes
Published: 1638
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 624
Other titles: Arcadia.; Sixth booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia.
Work titles: Arcadia
Notes: Editor's note "To the reader" signed: H.S., i.e. Hugh Sanford.

With additional works by Sidney.

Sir W.A. = William Alexander, Earl of Stirling.

Partly in verse.

"Harper printed quires A-O, Young the rest" ("Sir Philip Sidney", p. 301).

The first leaf is blank.

"A sixth booke to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia" by Richard Bellings, originally published separately in 1624, has separate title page with imprint "London, printed for T. D[ownes]. and R. Y[oung]."; pagination and register are continuous.

Johnstoun's dedication and supplement, [20] p. at end.

Early variant: title has "dedilcated" for "dedicated" and "Roung" for "R. Young", with other errors; remaining preliminaries in another setting.

STC (2nd ed.) 22550.

Sir Philip Sidney (ed. Dennis Kay, 1987), p. 300-1.