Nobilis or a View of the Life and Death of a Sidney and Lessus Lugubris

MOFFET, Thomas

Published by The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1940

About this Item

Nobilis or a View of the Life and Death of a Sidney and Lessus Lugubris by Thomas Moffet, with introduction, translation and notes by Virgil B. Heltzel and Hoyt H. Hudson: hardcover in dustjacket, text in English with some Latin. 1st edition Published by The Huntington Library - San Marino, 1940. Nobilis, or, A View of the Life and Death of a Sidney, and Lessus Lugubris is a 16th-century Latin biography of Sir Philip Sidney written by Thomas Moffett (Moffet) around 1593?1594. It offers an intimate, panegyrical account of Sidney's life, character, and death, alongside a funeral poem (Lessus lugubris), and was notably published with a modern translation by the Huntington Library in 1940. 'some cover wear, marks, browning, inside is clean and tight, some cloth wear, discoloration, some foxing spots mainly end papers, faint musty smell".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nobilis or a View of the Life and Death of a Sidney and Lessus Lugubris
• Publisher: The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
• Publication Date: 1940
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 7W x 9.25H x 1D inches 7 inches width by 9.25 inches height by 1 inches depth
• Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
  • Biography/ Autobiography
  • British literature
  • Poetry
  • Literature- classics