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A house called Morven : its role in American history, 1701-1954 / by Alfred Hoyt Bill, in collaboration with Walter E. Edge, with an essay on the architecture by George B. Tatum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bill, Alfred Hoyt, 1879- author.
- Edge, Walter E. (Walter Evans), 1873-1956, author.
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Princeton Legacy Library ; 2029
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stockton family.
- Morven (Princeton, N.J.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Edition:
- Revised
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1954.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Mr. Bill has brilliantly rendered the stately progress of life in and out of Morven through its two hundred and fifty years. He has brought history home to us as a warm and living thing."-Christian Science Monitor.Originally published in 1954.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword / Edge, Walter E.
- Preface / Bill, Alfred Hoyt
- Contents
- Chapter I. By the "Light Within" and the "New Lights"
- Chapter II. "In a State of Splendor"
- Chapter III. "The End of All Perfection"
- Chapter IV. "Ye Stately Elms! And Lofty Cedars! Mourn"
- Chapter V. "The Old Duke"
- Chapter VI. Robert the Magnificent
- Chapter VII. "A Very Correct, High-Spirited Officer"
- Chapter VIII. "The Commodore Is Irresistible"
- Chapter IX. "The Old Order Changeth"
- The Architecture of Morven
- Bibliography
- Manuscript Sources
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691627069
- 0691627061
- 9781400874682
- 1400874688
- OCLC:
- 655068102
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