Oxford University Press · New release
Portrait of an Obsession
How England's Greatest Private Library Was Built from the Ruins of Europe's Monasteries
Oxford University Press · World History
Releases January 07, 2027 · ISBN 9780198879053
About the book
How the 2nd Earl Spencer built the great library at Althorp during the Napoleonic Wars, as his agents bought and sometimes looted books from Europe's dissolved monasteries.
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