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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Germaine Warkentin, Joseph L. Black, and William R. Bowen Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations 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 References ...
