The Country House Library

Reference Type	Book
Year of Publication	2017
Contributors	Author: Mark Purcell
Language	English
Number of Pages	352 pp.
Publisher	Yale University Press
City	New Haven, CT
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Region	Europe
Library Type	Private/Personal Library
Chronological Period	10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 1800-1849 1850-1899 18th century 1900-1949 1950-1999 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century Ancient Period (pre 500)
ISBN	9780300227406
Annotation	Illustrated survey of British and Irish country house libraries from the Roman age to the 20th century. 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.