Published in memory of the architectural historian John Cornforth, these great house inventories document the taste and lifestyle of leading aristocratic patrons and the households that supported them.
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Contents: Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Note on the Transcriptions Part I - The Montagu Inventories: Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, 1709 and 1733; Boughton House, Northamptonshire, 1709, 1718, 1730; Ditton, Buckinghamshire, 1709; Montagu House, Whitehall, London, 1746 Part II - The Drayton Inventories: Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1710 and 1724 Part III - The Ditchley Inventories: Ditchley, Oxfordshire, 1743 and 1772 Part IV - The Norfolk Inventories: Houghton, Norfolk, 1745 and 1792; Holkham, Norfolk, and Thanet House, London, 1760 Part V - The Inventories of the Marquess of Carmarthen; Kiveton and Thorp Salvin, Yorkshire, 1727 Part VI - The Marlborough Inventories: Blenheim, Oxfordshire, and Marlborough House, London, 1740 Further Reading John Cornforth's writings which drew on the inventories in this book Credits Glossary and concordance Index
