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) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780198879053 - October 15, 2026
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Portrait of an Obsession: How England's Greatest Private Library was Built from the Ruins of Europe's Monasteries

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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))

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