Aedes Althorpianae by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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.More books in the Cambridge Library Collection - History Of Printing Publishing And Libraries series
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108057264 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108057268 |
| Title | Aedes Althorpianae |
| Author | Thomas Frognall Dibdin |
| Series | Cambridge Library Collection - History Of Printing Publishing And Libraries |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2012-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 406 |
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