Penshurst Castle in the Days of Sir Philip Sidney : A Story by Mrs Marshall

326pp plus final ads leaf. Half title, frontispiece. Further plate illustrations. Bound in burgundy buckram, blocked and lettered in gilt. Boards a little rubbed at edges and corners, clean, bright and strong. Internally a little spotting and previous owner’s inscription on half title. Handsome, robust volume. A novel of historical fiction. Marshall was an children’s author who wrote more than 200 novels. This novel tells the story of the household of Sir Philip Sidney, the sixteenth century poet, statesman and soldier, largely concentrating on the life of his sister, Mary. Penshurst Castle, the ancestral home of the Sidney family, is near Tonbridge in Kent (and open to the public).