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 8, 2026
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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)
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.

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To be released October 8, 2026
ISBN13 9780198879053
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 304
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   490 g   (Weight (estimated))

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