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Young's descriptions of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, prospects, &c, in different parts of England
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Young's descriptions of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, prospects, &c, in different parts of England, [ca. 1790].
Physical Description
1 v. (365, 6 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Alphabetical table of contents at beginning of manuscript.
At end of manuscript: "The following table of Rooms in the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats mentioned in this Vol[u]me do not give the exact proportion of any whole house ... ."
Title from title page.
Bookplate of Philip Shirley.
Bookplate of Ettington Manuscript Library. Written in ink in center: No. 62.
Steel engraving pasted on preliminary leaf, opposite clipping with description: Ickworth House near Bury St. Edmunds : the seat of the most noble the Marquess of Bristol / engd. on steel by Alfred Adlard. 50 Dorset Street, Salisbury Square.
Binding: quarter calf over marbled boards. Printed on spine: Noblemens Seats.
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Maggs, June 1947.
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Summary
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a collection of descriptions of residences of English nobility. The author focuses on descriptions of the views from each seat and the landscape in which the house is situated; occasionally he also describes the architecture and furnishings of the houses and provides anecdotes about the owners. He calls Winander Meer in Westmoreland "the largest water of the kind in England," and notes its picturesque promontories and shrub-decorated shores. At Raby Castle in North Riding, Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Darlington, he praises the Gothic taste of the windows; provides the dimensions of the "rendezvous apartment"; and explains how the dog-kennel, "rising out of a wood," beautifies the scene. He also speaks approvingly of Sir James Lowther's project in Cumberland of "building a town to consist of 300 houses, for the use of such of his Domesticks, and other people as are married," which he calls "a most incomparable method of promoting population."
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Archives or Manuscripts
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February 27, 2008
References
Arthur Young, Young's descriptions of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Arthur Young, Young's descriptions of noblemen's and gentlemen's seats. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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