Identifier: aedesalthorpiana01spen (find matches)
Title: Aedes Althorpianae; or, 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
Year: 1822 (1820s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Rare books Incunabula
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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iGround Plan of Althorp House—immediately following the preceding. Sophonisba Angosciola - . . . _ 6 A Calm, by Cuyp - - . _ _ 9 Fragment, from RafFaelle - - - - 11 Masked Ball - - ... - 14 Interior of the Long Library - ... 20 Rembrandts Mother - - - - 21 Viscount Althorp - - - - - 25 John, Duke of Marlborough - - - - - 2G The Stair Case - - . _ _ 237 John, Marquis of Blandford - - - - 238 Georgiana, First Countess Spencer . . . . 239 Margaret, Countess of Lucan - . . 240 Sir John Spencer, Knt. . . . _ 241 Henry VIII., Queen Mary, and Will Somers - - 244 Nell Gwynn - . . . . . 247 The Duchess of Portsmouth - . . _ 249 Lady Denham - - - - . _ 250 Mrs. Middleton - - - - - 251 Colonel John Russell - - ... 259 Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough ... 263 Sir Kenelm Digby, . - . . _ 265 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ... 266 Unknown Portrait . _ . . . 269 Algernon Sydney . . . _ . 272 George John, Earl Spencer, ZEtat. xvii., to face the title-page of Vol. II. SOME ACCOUNT OF ALTHORP. VOL. I.
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J=1 SOME ACCOUNT OF ALTHORP. 1 H E House and Park at Althorp* are situated in the parish ofGreat Brington, in New Bottle Grove Hundred, in the county ofNorthampton, at the distance of about six miles from Northamp-ton. This domain has been possessed by the Spencer Familyupwards of three centuries ; but the exact period of the erectionof the house seems to be unknown. There is however no questionof its having received its principal improvements during the timeof the first Earl of Sunderland, (1636-1643) who was son of thesecond Baron Spencer. The Lady of this Earl (daughter ofRobert Sidney, second Earl of Leicester, and better known as theSacharissa of Waller the poet) erected, and covered in, the greatstaircase—which had been formerly an interior court yard, in thefashion of the times. From that period, to the present, both thehouse and park have continued to receive improvements whichwill be duly noticed in the order of these pages. In the account of the Family, by whom the celebri

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