Studies and status: spaces for books in seventeenth-century Penshurst Place, Kent

West, Susie (2002). Studies and status: spaces for books in seventeenth-century Penshurst Place, Kent. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 12(3) pp. 266–292.

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154915

Abstract

The material environment for reading and collecting books in England is an emerging field of study, thanks to scholarship within book history and design history. New research identifies the lost location of the early modern library room for the book collection at Penshurst Place, home of the Sidney family. Archives sources are used to reconstruct the use of space around the medieval house and to consider the subsidiary studies identified around the house. The richly furnished library room is discussed in its wider cultural context for the moral dimension of material consumption.

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