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The country house library / Mark Purcell.

By: Publisher: London ; New Haven : Published for the National Trust by Yale University Press, [2019]Description: 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9780300248685
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 027.1
Summary: The Library is often the most spectacular room in British and Irish country houses, but until recently its history and its contents have frequently been ignored or misunderstood. This lavishly illustrated book sets the record straight, presenting for the first time a complete survey of libraries in country houses over the last two thousand years if libraries in country houses over the last two thousand years.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Non-Loanable Book Library Oversized Reserve 027.1 PUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 000421271

Title page verso: "First published in hardback by Yale University Press 2017. This edition published in paperback 2019".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index.

The Library is often the most spectacular room in British and Irish country houses, but until recently its history and its contents have frequently been ignored or misunderstood. This lavishly illustrated book sets the record straight, presenting for the first time a complete survey of libraries in country houses over the last two thousand years if libraries in country houses over the last two thousand years.

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