This engaging and beautifully illustrated book takes us back to the domestic world of the landed gentry in seventeenth-century England. Relating countless stori

The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I�

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This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and