How England's Greatest Private Library was Built from the Ruins of Europe's Monasteries
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George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834) spent his life and fortune acquiring the rarest books in the world and Bibliomania recovers how he did so, threading its way through a Europe torn apart by the Napoleonic Wars and unpicking what made one man assemble perhaps the greatest private library ever formed in Great Britain.
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