Howell, Roger — Sir Philip Sidney - The Shepherd Knight

Hutchinson 1968 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G+. x+308pp, b/w frontis, index, rear panel of dustjacket yellowed a little, closed tear to dustjacket at base of spine. Biography of Sidney [ 1554 - 1586 ] the Elizabethan Poet & scholar & soldier. His influence as a poet sealed forever with his An Apology for a Poet. He died after being shot in the leg at the Battle Of Zutphen.