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Noble households : eighteenth-century inventories of great English houses : a tribute to John Cornforth

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection C316

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Type of record: Book

Title: Noble households : eighteenth-century inventories of great English houses : a tribute to John Cornforth

Other titles: Eighteenth-century inventories of great English houses : a tribute to John Cornforth

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection C316

Additional creator(s): Murdoch, T V (Editor); Briggs, Candace (Contributor); Lindey, Laurie (Contributor); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Related people: Cornforth, John, 1937-; Cornforth, John, 1937-

Publisher: J. Adamson

Publication city: Cambridge, England

Date(s): 2006

Language: English

Size and medium: xii, 308 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/738219

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019986897005181

Description

Includes bibliographical references (page 293) and index.


Illustrated endpapers.


Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Montagu Inventories; Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, 1709 and 1733; Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 1709, 1718, 1730; Ditton House, Buckinghamshire, 1709; Montagu House, Whitehall, London, 1746; Part II: The Drayton Inventories; Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1710 and 1724; Part III: The Ditchley Inventories; Ditchley, Oxfordshire, 1743 and 1772; Part IV: Norfolk Inventories; Houghton Hall, 1745 and 1792; Holkham Hall, Norfolk and Thanet House, London, 1760; Narford Hall, 1753; Part V: Inventories of the Marquess of Carmarthen; Kiveton and Thorp Salvin, Yorkshire, 1727; Part VI: The Marlborough Inventories. Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and Marlborough House, London, 1740; Bibliography; Photographic credits; Glossary; Index.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C316: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: V/5.

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