The country house library / Mark Purcell
2022, New edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #392691
ISBN: 9780300227406
Physical description: 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction: On the Country House Library -- 'Reciting my poems even in Britain': From Roman Britain to Magna Carta -- 'A study caullid paradise': The antecedents of the Country House Library, from the Thirteenth century to the Early Tudor period -- 'This scribbling age': The Country House Library from the Reformation to the Civil War -- 'Your own admirable library': Book collecting and the Country House from Elizabeth I to the Eighteenth century -- 'A great number of usefull books': Ordinary books and ordinary libraries from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth centuries -- 'A spacious room': Library architecture and fittings from the Restoration to Queen Victoria -- 'Bibliomania': The book craze of the late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth centuries, and its afterlife -- The Country House librarian -- 'A very pretty and comfortable room': The Library and Country House Life in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries -- Town and country: The relationship between libraries in Country Houses, Town Houses and Suburban Villas -- Reading and borrowing: Using the library -- The Nouveaux riches: New money and new libraries in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries -- 'Ravaged by body-snatchers': The dispersal of the Country House Library, from the late Nineteenth centuries -- The body in the library: Libraries and the politics of heritage in the Twentieth century.
Subjects: National Trust (Great Britain) St. John's College (University of Cambridge). Library. Manuscript. H.5.
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