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The Visitor's Guide To Knole, In The County Of Kent, With Catalogues Of The Pictures Contained In The Mansion, And Biographical Notices Of The Principal Persons Whose Portraits Form Part Of The Collection. By John H. Brady, F.R.A.S.

John Henry Brady

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/2655

Author

Imprint

Sevenoaks:: Printed By And For James Payne., London:: Sold By Simpkin & Marshall, Stationers' Court, And J.R. Smith, Old Compton Street., 1839.

Physical Description

xx, 258, [2] p., frontis., [5] pl., fold. geneal. table: illus.; 225 mm. (Quarto.)

Contents

[Frontis., half-t., t.p., dedic.] - Advertisement - Preface - Contents - List Of Engravings - [Text] - List Of Subscribers; [colophon] - Announcement by the Author of this Volume; [publisher's advertisement].

Responsibility Note

The plates and illustrations are unsigned.

The work is dedicated by James Payne to Mary, Countess-dowager of Plymouth (who in the same year remarried and became countess Amherst of Arracan).

Summary Note

The work is a guide to the collections at Knole, which include 17th-century furniture, and portraits by Van Dyck, Gainsborough and Reynolds. The house is now owned by the National Trust.

Reproductions

A copy of this book from the Harvard University has been digitised and made available online via the Hathi Trust.

Binding Note

19th-century green cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; spine lettered 'Guide To Knole House'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Paintings, European - History
Collections - Art Galleries - Country houses - Great Britain - Kent - Sevenoaks - Knole - History - 19th century
Catalogues - Guidebooks - Great Britain - 19th century
Publishers' advertisements - Great Britain - 19th century

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