The country house library / Mark Purcell.
Publisher: London ; New Haven : Published for the National Trust by Yale University Press, [2019]Description: 352 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cmISBN:- 9780300248685
- 23 027.1
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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