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Portrait of an Obsession: How England's Greatest Private Library was Built from the Ruins of Europe's Monasteries Jackson Williams, Kelsey (Associate Professor of Early Modern Literature, University of Stirling; Senior Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Early Modern Literature, University of Stirling; Senior Research Fellow, Blackie House Library and Museum)
Portrait of an Obsession: How England's Greatest Private Library was Built from the Ruins of Europe's Monasteries
Jackson Williams, Kelsey (Associate Professor of Early Modern Literature, University of Stirling; Senior Research Fellow, Associate Professor of Early Modern Literature, University of Stirling; Senior Research Fellow, Blackie House Library and Museum)
George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834) spent his life and fortune acquiring the rarest books in the world and Bibliomania recovers how he did so, threading its way through a Europe torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars and unpicking what made one man assemble perhaps the greatest private library ever formed in Great Britain.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | October 15, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198879053 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 545 g (Weight (estimated)) |