Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories, document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them.
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Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories, document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them.
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This is am amazing resource of information for historians or those who wish a closer look at 18th century Georgian life. It is a room by room listing of furnishings and goods of nine great country houses and four London town houses, providing an in depth view of these homes. It answers questions of contents and purposes for specific rooms as well what the grand rooms for entertaining contained. There is a short introduction for each household inventory to set the home's historical context. This book enables one a glimpse of 18th century lifestyle and all it took to support that grand household.
