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2013x-1444349988Blackwell Pub 2013. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 184 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. Blackwell Pub paperback
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2017FB1132 /attc<p>In the original dust sheet. Green board with gilt title on the spine.</p><p>In many country houses the Library is the most spectacular room in the house. At Blickling in Norfolk the Long Gallery 123 feet long and lined end-to-end with books is unforgettable. At Alnwick Castle in Northumberland the double-height Library shelved from floor to ceiling is enormous and at Calke in Derbyshire it is the second largest room in the house. Elsewhere interiors impress less for their size than for their opulence. At Traquair south of Edinburgh each bay of shelving has a classical author painted on the cornice above just as in the seventeenth-century Library of the antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton 1570/1–1631 at Westminster where the bust of a Roman emperor once sat atop each bookcase. At Abbotsford many of Sir Walter Scott's books remain on the shelves of the great room he created for them while the library of another bestselling novelist survives at Hughenden the Buckinghamshire retreat of Queen Victoria's favourite Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. But the history of libraries in country houses is a history of lost libraries as well as extant collections. Quite apart from books sold by the descendants of their original owners libraries have always been subject to dissolution in more dramatic fashion. The library of the 3rd Duke of Argyll was described in a lavishly produced catalogue published by the Foulis Press in Glasgow in 1758 and subsequently sold to George III's Prime Minister the 3rd Earl of Bute 1713–92. It was then destroyed in a fire at Bute's English home Luton Hoo in 1771. Nearly two hundred years later the library of the aesthete Ralph Dutton 1898–1985 was destroyed in 1960 in a great fire at Hinton Ampner near Winchester. So intense were the flames that the books were left 'almost petrified as if engulfed by a volcanic eruption'. In Ireland many libraries perished in the house burnings which marked the end of the old order during the War of Independence and ensuing Civil War. It was not a new phenomenon. In a leaflet in circulation during the Land War in the 1880s beleaguered Irish gentry were already being advised to use heavy ancestral books to barricade windows against attack. In fact by the revolutionary era many Irish libraries had already been sold following state-sponsored land reforms begun in the dying decades of British rule in Ireland. In both Britain and Ireland there are many instances where a house survives but its library does not. It comes as a surprise that there was a major library at Castletown in County Kildare as recently as the 1960s. At Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire probably not one National Trust visitor in a thousand realises that the seventeenth-century Long Gallery was once shelved end to end . At Ettington Park in Warwickshire now a hotel the spectacular Gothic Library built by the gentleman-scholar E. P. Shirley 1812–82 remains. Guests can decide whether they believe in the Library poltergeist but Shirley's books like those from his Irish house at Lough Fea County Monaghan are gone. In both cases the loss of a remarkable library is a pointer to an important fact. The more magnificent the books and the more quickly the shelves had been filled by an enthusiastic nineteenth-century collector the more likely it was that they would eventually be removed and sold. Then there are the many country houses which are today open to the public but where visitors see little or nothing of books. At Chatsworth visitors are only able to look through the Library door though even that is spectacular. At Longleat most of one of the finest private libraries in the world is not seen by ordinary tourists at all. To varying extents the same is true of houses like Holkham Houghton Goodwood Petworth and Knole where libraries are not in show rooms long open to tourists but in historically private apartments in rooms which frequently remain off-limits to casual sightseers. The reasons are not difficult to guess at but the logic is that there are more grand libraries in private hands than many people realise. But there are also many libraries which are if less spectacular in many ways just as remarkable. Sometimes in show houses and sometimes in houses very much in private occupation these smaller libraries may be accommodated in modest and unpretentious rooms. Their books may have been in place for centuries and be of considerable interest. At Gunby Hall the library assembled by the Massingberds a family of east Lincolnshire squires goes back to the late seventeenth century. Though battered and now only a partial survival the books provide a fascinating flavour of gentry life in an often-forgotten corner of England. Elsewhere quite ordinary eighteenth- or nineteenth-century books may be housed in apartments of some magnificence. At Flintham Hall in Nottinghamshire a double-height Library provides the link between a comfortable Victorian family home and a vast conservatory clearly inspired by the Crystal Palace. At Sheringham Park the books of the Upcher family high-minded Norfolk squires remain in the room designed for them by Humphry Repton 1752–1818 a space in every sense the precursor of the modern living room. There is an almost equally elegant Regency Library at Wassand Hall in East Yorkshire a Catholic house and like Gunby still with its original books while similarly interesting books are found in houses like Farnborough Hall in Warwickshire or Dudmaston in Shropshire. Other libraries survive but not in situ nor in the hands of their original aristocratic owners. The most spectacular is the vast library of the bibliomaniac 2nd Earl Spencer 1758–1834 from Althorp Northamptonshire sold en bloc in 1892 to the Cuban-born Enriqueta Rylands as the foundation collection of the new research library she founded in memory of her husband the Manchester cotton magnate John Rylands 1801–88. There was nothing new in the institutionalisation of aristocratic libraries. The 5th Duke of Norfolk had at the suggestion of John Evelyn given his personal library to the Royal Society in 1667 while Frances Duchess of Somerset gave about 1000 books from her late husband's library to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield in 1674. The magnificent library from Stoneleigh Abbey Warwickshire was bequeathed to Oriel College Oxford in 1786. The college showed its gratitude by commissioning an exquisite new building from James Wyatt to house the books and by quietly selling Lord Leigh's Shakespeare First Folio to Sir Paul Getty in 2002. Deplorable though this seemed to many Oriel was not doing anything new in selling to a private collector. As far back as 1811 T. F. Dibdin 1776–1847 had procured three Caxtons from Lincoln Cathedral for the library of his patron Earl Spencer. Other country house libraries were subject to what amounted to a rather subtle nationalisation in the years following the Second World War. A large number of manuscripts from the library of the Earls of Leicester at Holkham went to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in the 1950s. Other Holkham books ended up in the British Library as did books from Chatsworth including incunabula and the tenth-century Benedictional of St Æthelwold. The transfer of these and other treasures to public ownership was the consequence not only of the enormous death duties of the post-war period but also of new regulations on export stops. But for some books it was already too late. Had export stops been in place in the early 1930s it seems inconceivable that two more great Anglo-Saxon manuscripts the eighth-century Blickling Psalter and the Blickling Homilies would have been allowed to leave the United Kingdom. This dovetails neatly into another form of nationalisation. The National Trust was founded in 1895 and its first books were at Coleridge's Cottage Nether Stowey Somerset acquired in 1907. However its first serious library at Blickling was bequeathed along with the house by the 11th Marquess of Lothian in 1940. It has sometimes been said that Lothian's involvement in the Trust's Country Houses Scheme 1934 was the result of his distress at the sale of books from Blickling and his principal Scottish seat Newbattle Abbey in 1932. If this was the case there is no reference to it in Lothian's papers and no mention of libraries in his correspondence with the National Trust. The crucial point is that Lothian lent his name to the Country Houses Scheme and subsequently left Blickling and its remaining 12561 books to the Trust. It was the beginning of a process which would subsequently see the gradual transfer of about 300000 books to the Trust whether by gift bequest Treasury transfer in lieu of death duties or later by purchase. A similar process was repeated on a smaller scale north of the border where the National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931. If there are now far fewer libraries in country houses than there were in the nineteenth century the number of survivors in both private and institutional hands is far from negligible. How many exactly is unclear but at the most conservative estimate we must be dealing with hundreds of thousands of books in hundreds of locations. So it remains surprising that so many libraries have been so consistently overlooked in modern times. When he died in 1682 the probate inventory of the 1st Duke of Lauderdale reckoned that his books at Ham House made up half the value of all the chattels in the house. One would scarcely guess this when reading the many publications on furniture pictures and upholstery at Ham the problem has recently been redressed with the publication in 2013 of a full-scale scholarly study of Ham which does includes a chapter on the lost library. Many similar books on other houses resolutely ignore libraries as do most of the enormous number of general books on country houses as well as many guidebooks.</p> Yale University Press. hardcover
2022392691New Haven : Yale University Press 2022. New edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: 352 pages : illustrations some color ; 28 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Subjects: National Trust Great Britain St. John's College University of Cambridge. Library. Manuscript. H.5.Libraries Great Britain.Country homes Great Britain. Books and reading Great Britain. Books and reading Great Britain.Books and reading.Country homes. Libraries.Books and reading Great Britain. Libraries Great Britain. Country homes Great Britain. LandhausPrivatbibliothekBibliothèques Grande-Bretagne. Maisons de campagne Grande-Bretagne. Livres et lecture Grande-Bretagne.Libraries Great Britain.Country homes Great Britain. Books and reading Great Britain. Libraries Great Britain History.Private libraries Great Britain. Book collecting Great Britain. Bibliothèques Grande-Bretagne.Books and reading.Country homes. Libraries.Landhaus PrivatbibliothekBibliothèques Grande-Bretagne. Livres et lecture Grande-Bretagne.Private libraries Great Britain. Book collecting Great Britain History.Libraries Great Britain History. Country homes Great Britain. Libraries and Museums. Great Britain.Großbritannien Great Britain. Books and reading-British Isles. Country homes-British Isles. Libraries-British Isles. Libraries - Great Britain. Country houses - Great Britain. Books and reading. New Haven : Yale University Press hardcover
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