Title page of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, third edition mb-code U2006002-17 Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo Bridge

Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo Bridge can be seen in the background

a lack of gutters and the dirt of man and horse tended to compound the problem

Plate 11 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

He was stabbed to death in cold blood by the retainers of his younger brother Ethelred

Title page of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, third edition mb-code U2006002-17 Cleopatra's Needle and Waterloo BridgeTitle page of The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney, third edition, 1598 (1893). An illustration from A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.