Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Germaine Warkentin ,
Joseph Black ,
William Bowen
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:
Width: 22.40cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 28.80cm
Weight: 1.440kg
ISBN: 9780802042934
ISBN 10: 0802042937
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 21 October 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'This masterful edition, the product of decades of collaborative research, represents a remarkable contribution both to Sidney studies and to early modern book history.' -- Katherine R. Larson
'This masterful edition, the product of decades of collaborative research, represents a remarkable contribution both to Sidney studies and to early modern book history.' -- Katherine R. Larson Renaissance and Reformation vol 37:01:2014 'Warkentin's successful efforts provide a fascinating analysis of book-collecting and reading of the Sidney Earls of Leicester... This volume will be prized by Sidney scholars.' -- Susan Whyman SHARP News vol 23:04:2014
'This masterful edition, the product of decades of collaborative research, represents a remarkable contribution both to Sidney studies and to early modern book history.' -- Katherine R. Larson Renaissance and Reformation vol 37:01:2014 'Warkentin's successful efforts provide a fascinating analysis of book-collecting and reading of the Sidney Earls of Leicester... This volume will be prized by Sidney scholars.' -- Susan Whyman SHARP News vol 23:04:2014 'It is an informative work, admirably organized and structured. The research is exhaustive and scholarly and it is a fascinating book to read. -- Renae Satterley The Library vol 15:04:2014 'Warkentin, Black, and Bowen have produced an extremely careful publication, attractively and logically presented ... The Library of the Sidneys is an important publication that offers insights into the mysteries of manners, arms, and arts' that the Sidneys commanded - and collected - for so many years.' -- Daniel Starza Smith Library & Information History vol 31:01:2014
Author Information
Germaine Warkentin is a professor emeritus of the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Joseph L. Black is professor and director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. William R. Bowen is Chair of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
