8vo. In three volumes. [12], 32, 419, [1]; [3], 402-881, [1]; [4], 64, 184, [6]. With six engraved plates. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, contrasting red ad green morocco lettering-pieces. Rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Armorial bookplate of John Searle to sprung front pastedown of Vol. I, early inked ownership inscriptions to endpapers, all three volumes dampstained.

The fourteenth edition of collected works by Elizabethan poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), including the poet's Arcadia, Defense of Poesy, and Astrophel and Stella. The volumes contain the first edition of Arcadia published in the eighteenth Century, indicating the poem's fluctuating popularity.