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How libraries merged with living rooms to become the ultimate in Regency country house chic

Country Life Trending: The Library at Chatsworth House. ©Country Life Credit: Paul Barker/Country Life/IPC+Syndication By the early 19th century, the library-living room had become an essential element of the country house. John Martin Robinson looks at the development of this space and the wild enthusiasm for books that encouraged it. The library was together with the drawing room and dining room one of the three principal living interiors in the English Regency country house. It was an informal room, comfortably furnished and suited for the entertainment of a house party. For its owner, it provided occupation for a wet-weather day, not only reading or writing, but rearranging and cataloguing books, browsing and looking at prints, drawings, medals and coins.

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