The sixth Duke of Devonshire's handbook of Chatsworth
By: edited with an introduction by John Martin Robinson
Publisher: Privately printed for The Roxburghe Club and Chatsworth
Published: 2020
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781901902150
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Manors; Homes and haunts; Buildings, structures; Chatsworth (England)
Other titles: Chatsworth; Handbook of Chatsworth
Work titles: Handbook of Chatsworth
Notes: Edited by John Martin Robinson; published by Stoker Devonshire, the current Duke, to commemorate his membership of the Roxburghe Club.

Includes biographical notes about persons mentioned in the Handbook.

Includes index.

Includes facsimile of the 1844-1845 Handbook of Chatsworth printed by Frederick Shoberl Jr. William Cavendish, the sixth Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), was greatly interested in the history of his family and of Chatsworth, and he privately printed a Handbook of his home in which he intended to "show ... every room and corner of the house."

"This book is set in Austin ... The paper is Mohawk Superfine 148 gsm. The binding design is based on a copy of the Handbook at Chatsworth, known as 'the Duchess's copy.' The leather bound copies were bound at Ludlow Bookbinders."

Purchase; Heywood Hill; 2020 November 26; 2021-59; Harrison D. Horblit Book Fund.

Mottled gray and cream boards, gilt on cover.