The Country House Library (York Manuscript and Early Print... - Purcell, Mark

The Country House Library by Mark Purcell\n\nPublished by Yale University Press in 2017\nISBN: 9780300227406\nCondition: Very Good\nDescription:\nHard cover, with dust jacket. Published by Yale for The National Trust. Dark green boards with gold gilt lettering and the National Trust oak leaf emblem on the spine. Red end papers with the original owner's name and a date inscribed on the front free end paper. Light rubbing and shelf wear at the edges of the jacket, otherwise almost as new. Clean text pages with bright colours; no tears, no annotations, firm binding. Fully illustrated in colour on high quality gloss paper, this handsome book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries celebrating both the architecture of the rooms and the collections housed therein. 275x225x30mm. 352 pages.\nPlease email for more photographs or details.\n\nAll funds raised from this auction will go to the charity Catching Lives (charity no.1014868) which helps homeless pe.