'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