Aedes Althorpianae Dibdin Paperback Cambridge University Press Volume 2

Aedes AlthorpianaeAn Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp, the Residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G: To Which is Added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana\nAuthor(s): Thomas Frognall Dibdin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108057271, 978-1108057271\nSynopsis\nThe bibliophile aristocrat George Spencer [tel] employed Thomas Frognall Dibdin [tel] as his librarian for life. The second earl had amassed the greatest private library in Europe, housed at Althorp, and Dibdin was tasked with cataloguing the vast collection and sourcing suitable editions to add to it. In 1814, Dibdin began publishing his four-volume catalogue, Bibliotheca Spenceriana (also reissued in this series). Aedes Althorpianae was published in two volumes in 1822, and although it is to a great extent devoted to further details of the great library and its contents, it is also illuminating for its d.