Lichtenchtein

1874 · réf. BECllLIE82 — London: Macmillan And Co. 1874. 1874. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. vii-xvi 289 1; 1 p.l. v-xi 255 1. lacking half-titles. 5 steel-engraved plates incl. frontis. & titles 8 lithographed facsimiles 6 folding & numerous wood-engraved plates & text illus. modern half morocco t.e.g. joints rubbed light dampmark to lower covers & some of the leaves of Vol. I. First Edition. A history and physical description of the residence of the Holland family in Kensington London. Built in 1606 the mansion was bought in 1767 by English politician Henry Fox first Baron Holland 1705-1774 and was made famous in the first forty years of the nineteenth century by the hospitality of Henry Fox 3d Baron Holland and his wife. Reformers such as Jeremy Bentham Samuel Romilly and Henry Brougham scientists such as Michael Faraday and Humphry Davy writers such as Thomas Moore George Byron and Sir Walter Scott and statesmen such as William Melbourne George Canning and Henry Palmerston were frequent guests at the famous dinners at Holland House. Columbia Encycl. 6th Edn. Included are chapters on the China Room the Map Room the Print Room Sir Joshua Reynolds Room the Library the Miniature Room some of the Mss. and Autographs in Holland House &c. F. London: Macmillan And Co., 1874. unknown