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A genius for money : business, art, and the Morrisons / Caroline Dakers.
LIBRA HC252.5.M67 D34 2011
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HC252.5.M67 D34 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dakers, Caroline.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morrison, James, 1789-1857.
- Morrison, James.
- Businessmen--Great Britain--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Rich people.
- Great Britain.
- Rich people--Great Britain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 326 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Middle Wallop
- The Todds of Fore Street
- Fore Street and the textiles trade
- James Morrison, 'the Napoleon of shopkeepers'
- The education of a gentleman (part one)
- The education of a gentleman (part two): the grand tour
- Into Parliament
- Fonthill
- 57 Harley Street
- In Parliament
- 'The American project'
- Letters from America, 1841-1845
- Basildon: Papworth's last commission
- Basildon: 'what a casket to enclose pictorial gems'
- The final decade
- Charles Morrison, 1817-1909: 'statesman in finance'
- Alfred Morrison, 1821-1897: 'Victorian Maecenas'
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [304]-313) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780300112207
- 0300112203
- OCLC:
- 150334757
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