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The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665 / edited by Germaine Warkentin, Joseph L. Black, and William R. Bowen.
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English
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
©2013
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xiv, 406 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 29 cm.
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Z997.S53 L52 2013
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Private libraries
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England
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Penshurst
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England
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Penshurst
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Penshurst Place (England)
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Bowen, William R.
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Warkentin, Germaine
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Black, Joseph, 1962-
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Summary note
Annotation For two centuries (1540-1740) the Sidney family of Penshurt Place, Kent, produced poets, courtiers, collectors, and at least one revolutionary. Increasingly aware of the cultural ideal of the learned nobleman and of libraries as representations of that ideal, the Sidneys amassed one of the largest gentry libraries in England of their period. This edition of their library catalogue provides a vivid portrait of the birth, growth, and eventual demise of the distinguished family's library collection. Comprised of nearly 5000 entries, the catalogue is presented with a full introduction describing the Sidneys' intellectual world and life, their reading and collecting, the women collectors of the family, and the dispersal of the library in 1743. The editors employ all the resources of contemporary bibliography, print and digital, to identify the titles in the catalogue, and where possible to locate the Sidneys' own copies still extant, as well as architectural analysis to identify and describe the library room at Penshurst, now lost to nineteenth-century renovations.
Notes
Based on the catalogue copied by Gilbert Spencer.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
The Sidneys of Penshurst
The Penshurst Library Catalogue
The Life of the Mind in Arcadia
The Making of the Catalogue
Readers and Collectors, 1540-1626
Sir Henry Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
Robert Sidney, first earl of Leicester
Robert Sidney, second earl of Leicester
'Lord Lisleys Study'
The Library at Penshurst after 1665
Readers and Collectors: The Later Sidneys, 1677-1743
The Sale of the Penshurst Library
Penshurst after the seventh earl
Textual Introduction
The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665
Appendix of Associated Books.
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ISBN
9780802042934
0802042937
LCCN
2013387498
OCLC
838760715
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