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    Volume 2: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century in the Library of George John Earl Spencer, K.G.
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 December 2015
    15 November 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139542517
    9781108057271
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139542517
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    (254 x 178 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    1.1kg, 642 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Population History, Printing and Publishing History, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Population History, Printing and Publishing History, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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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 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 2 records over 300 additions to the fifteenth-century books in the earl's collection, and catalogues the treasures of the great Cassano library, recently acquired by the earl.

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