Dear List--I have been working on an essay on the Sidney psalms, by a
pair of siblings, and some psalms translations by Elisabeth-Sophie
Chéron illustrated by her brother, Louis, a Huguenot (she converted to
Catholicism) who fled to England after the Revocation of the Edict of
Nantes--in other words, another sibling team. To my delight I
discovered (partly by working on ECCO, partly thanks to some research
by Roger Kuin) that the 1725 edition of Sidney's works include
illustrations of Sidney's Arcadia done by . . . Louis Chéron. Not
needed for my essay but a really, really neat thing to know and worth
at least a reference. But the 1725 edition says it's the 14th edition.
Louis and Elisabeth, as we say, "flourished" a generation or even two
earlier, under Charles II. Does anyone know about the first 13
editions of the 1725 ed. of Sidney's works? Is there anything good on
illustrations of Sidney? Chéron is too late for the stuff on Gallica
and I can find nothing relevant on EEBO. Thanks. Anne.
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