Noble households : eighteenth-century inventories of great English houses : a tribute to John Cornforth / edited by Tessa Murdoch ; inventories transcribed by Candace Briggs and Laurie Lindey.

Title & Author:

Noble households : eighteenth-century inventories of great English houses : a tribute to John Cornforth / edited by Tessa Murdoch ; inventories transcribed by Candace Briggs and Laurie Lindey.

Publication:

Cambridge, England : J. Adamson, 2006.

Description:

xii, 308 pages : illustrations, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Illustrated endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (page 293) and index.
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Montagu Inventories; Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, 1709 and 1733; Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 1709, 1718, 1730; Ditton House, Buckinghamshire, 1709; Montagu House, Whitehall, London, 1746; Part II: The Drayton Inventories; Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1710 and 1724; Part III: The Ditchley Inventories; Ditchley, Oxfordshire, 1743 and 1772; Part IV: Norfolk Inventories; Houghton Hall, 1745 and 1792; Holkham Hall, Norfolk and Thanet House, London, 1760; Narford Hall, 1753; Part V: Inventories of the Marquess of Carmarthen; Kiveton and Thorp Salvin, Yorkshire, 1727; Part VI: The Marlborough Inventories. Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire and Marlborough House, London, 1740; Bibliography; Photographic credits; Glossary; Index.

ISBN:

9780952432258
0952432250

Subject:

Cornforth, John, 1937-2004.
Decorative arts England History 18th century Catalogs.
House furnishings England History 18th century Catalogs.
Furniture England History 18th century Catalogs.
Nobility Homes and haunts England History 18th century.
Households England 18th century Sources.
Arts décoratifs Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle Catalogues.
Ameublement Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle Catalogues.
Meubles Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle Catalogues.
Ménages (Statistique) Angleterre 18e siècle Sources.
15.70 history of Europe.
Decorative arts
Furniture
House furnishings
Households
Nobility Homes and haunts
Landhuizen.
Inventarissen.
England
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
1700-1799

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
History
Sources
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Murdoch, T. V.
Briggs, Candace.
Lindey, Laurie.

Eighteenth-century inventories of great English houses : a tribute to John Cornforth

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255899
Call No.: BIB 186172
Status: Available

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