 | A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570–1792 Subjects: Book industries and trade; English literature; Books; Books and reading; Subscription libraries; Censorship; Authors and publishers; Authors and readers; Authors and publishers.; Authors and readers.; Book industries and trade.; Books and reading.; Books; Censorship.; English literature; Subscription libraries.; This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres. It challenges prior understandings of pre-Union Scotland's book culture, presents the catalogue of a collection of international importance for the first time, and recovers the intellectual history behind this "Great Bibliotheck". The volume includes chapters on the history of the library to the Restoration (Jane Stevenson) and from Restoration to Enlightenment (Kelsey Jackson Williams) as well as a detailed discussion of the library's reconstruction (William Zachs and Jackson Williams), a full catalogue, and appendices. Jane Stevenson was born in 1959 in London & brought up in London, Beijing, & Bonn. She teaches comparative literature & translation studies at the University of Warwick & lives with her husband in Warwickshire, England. Her novel, "London Bridges," will be published by Houghton Mifflin in 2001. (Bowker Author Biography) |
