Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Warkentin, Germaine (1933-....). Éditeur scientifique
Titre(s) : The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665 [Texte imprimé] / edited by Germaine Warkentin, Joseph L. Black, and William R. Bowen
Publication : Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-406 p.) ; 29 cm
Note(s) : Based on the catalogue copied by Gilbert Spencer. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bowen, William Roy (1951-....). Éditeur scientifique
Black, Joseph Laurence (1962-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Pembroke, Mary Sidney (1561-1621 ; comtesse de)
Sidney, Philip (1554-1586)
Sidney, Henry (1529-1586)
Catalogues de bibliothèques privées
Bibliothèques privées -- Angleterre (GB) -- Penshurst (GB)
Genre ou forme : Catalogues
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780802042934. - ISBN 0802042937
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43749267x
Notice n° :
FRBNF43749267
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