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Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century by Murdoch
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- Book Title
- Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Cent
- Format
- Hard cover
- Publication Date
- 2022-11-17
- Publication Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 9781898565178
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Publisher
- John Adamson Publishing Consultants
- Topic
- Design, Architecture, Antiques & Collectibles, History, General, Furniture, Europe / Ireland, Decorative Arts
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
John Adamson Publishing Consultants
ISBN-10
1898565171
ISBN-13
9781898565178
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23050428966
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Design, Architecture, Antiques & Collectibles, History, General, Furniture, Europe / Ireland, Decorative Arts
Illustrator
Yes
Dimensions
Item Length
10.7 In.
Item Height
1.5 In.
Item Width
8.5 In.
Item Weight
61.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Great Irish Households : Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century
Dewey Decimal
728.80941509033
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
Toby Barnard is one of the pre-eminent historians of eighteenth-century Ireland Inventories, most of them published here for the first time, are presented in a highly readable layout Extensive index makes the goods and chattels listed in the inventories easily accessible Full glossary is linked to the index Companion volume to Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions. That was not always so. The inventory for Castlecomer House, Co. Kilkenny, for example, was drawn up to make a claim following the house's devastation in the 1798 uprising. Mostly hitherto unpublished, the inventories chosen give new-found insights into the lifestyle and taste of some of the foremost families of the day. A comprehensive index facilitates access to the myriad items within the inventories, while the books listed at three of the houses are tentatively identified in separate appendices. A foreword, together with preambles to the inventories, sets the households in their historical context. The book will appeal to historians of interiors, patronage, collecting and material culture, as well as to scholars, curators, collectors, creative designers, film directors, bibliographers, lexicographers and historical novelists., * Toby Barnard is one of the pre-eminent historians of eighteenth-century Ireland* Inventories, most of them published here for the first time, are presented in a highly readable layout* Extensive index makes the goods and chattels listed in the inventories easily accessible* Full glossary is linked to the index* Companion volume to Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English HousesThe value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death of an owner and the consequent need to deal with testamentary dispositions. That was not always so. The inventory for Castlecomer House, Co. Kilkenny, for example, was drawn up to make a claim following the house's devastation in the 1798 uprising. Mostly hitherto unpublished, the inventories chosen give new-found insights into the lifestyle and taste of some of the foremost families of the day. A comprehensive index facilitates access to the myriad items within the inventories, while the books listed at three of the houses are tentatively identified in separate appendices. A foreword, together with preambles to the inventories, sets the households in their historical context. The book will appeal to historians of interiors, patronage, collecting and material culture, as well as to scholars, curators, collectors, creative designers, film directors, bibliographers, lexicographers and historical novelists.
Publication Year
2022
Dewey Edition
23
Format
Hardcover
Reviews
Historic household inventories recording the contents of rooms are an essential documentary tool for understanding the use and appearance of houses in the distant past. For anyone with a serious interest in Irish Georgian houses, this collection of 18 transcribed inventories, each prefaced with a short introduction on the house in question, is an essential work of reference., A box of geeky delights, certainly, but also a fabulous (one might even say indispensable) source for the scholarly study of the Irish country house . . ., [T]his collection is a cornucopia of information, and while its primary audience will be scholars and curators, there is plenty to be gleaned from the listings for anyone interested in historic interiors., It's not hard to see how a set designer on a film set in a grand 18th-century house would pore over the details in the book to find out how many paintings to put in the hall, whether there should be a rug on the floor and might it really be made of velvet, [The book] will be an invaluable and rich source of information for scholars and I know I will be using it on a regular basis.
LC Classification Number
NA7337
Number of Pages
436 pages
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