'Going for a song? Country house sales in Georgian England' in J Stobart & I van Damme (eds), Modernity and the Second Hand Trade. European consumption cultures and practices, 1700-1900
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- Author(s) MacArthur, Rosie, & Jon Stobart
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 2010
- Pages pp175-95
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Place Published Basingstoke
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Explores 'both the nature of country house sales as a mechanism for selling a wide range of secondhand goods, and the ways in which these sales impacted upon the spaces and fortunes of the country house'. Based on analysis of a collection of sale catalogues for Northamptonshire, 1761-1849