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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.
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.
Price: $225.00
Pages: 514
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word
Publication Date:
19 May 2022
ISBN: 9789004503779
Format: Other
Kelsey Jackson Williams, DPhil, University of Stirling, is lecturer in early modern literature at that university and has published extensively on Scottish intellectual and book history, notably The First Scottish Enlightenment: Rebels, Priests, and History (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Jane Stevenson, PhD, Campion Hall, University of Oxford, is Senior Research Fellow in that society and has published widely on Latinity, women's history, Catholic history, and British authors abroad.
William Zachs, PhD, LittD, University of Edinburgh, is Honorary Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures and one of the world's leading authorities on the history of the eighteenth-century book and author of The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade (Oxford University Press, 1998).
Jane Stevenson, PhD, Campion Hall, University of Oxford, is Senior Research Fellow in that society and has published widely on Latinity, women's history, Catholic history, and British authors abroad.
William Zachs, PhD, LittD, University of Edinburgh, is Honorary Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures and one of the world's leading authorities on the history of the eighteenth-century book and author of The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade (Oxford University Press, 1998).