Aedes Althorpianae - Or, An Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp, the Residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G., to which is Added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana (Paperback)

The bibliophile aristocrat George Spencer (1758 1834) employed Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776 1847) as his librarian for life. The second earl had amassed the greatest private library in Europe, housed at Althorp, and Dibdin was tasked with cataloguing the vast collection and sourcing suitable editions to add to it. In 1814, Dibdin began publishing his four-volume catalogue, Bibliotheca Spenceriana (also reissued in this series). Aedes Althorpianae was published in two volumes in 1822, and although it is to a great extent devoted to further details of the great library and its contents, it is also illuminating for its detailed history of Althorp and the Spencers. Its descriptions of the internal decoration of Althorp, particularly its art, are accompanied by numerous illustrations. Volume 1 includes descriptions of the various illustrated works in the library, such as a volume of original drawings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and a sumptuous illuminated Magna Carta.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Aedes Althorpianae 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
Release date:	November 2012
First published:	October 2012
Authors:	Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	406
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-05726-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Library, archive & information management
LSN:	1-108-05726-8
Barcode:	9781108057264

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