Aedes Althorpianae 2 Volume Set: An Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp, the Residence of George John Earl Spencer by George John Spencer, Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Aedes Althorpianae 2 Volume Set: An Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp, the Residence of George John Earl Spencer

George John Spencer, Thomas Frognall Dibdin

1048 pages • first pub 1822 (editions)

nonfiction
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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 catalogu...

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