Hughenden Manor, Buckinghamshire
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A large collection of portraits of Disraeli's family, friends and political allies; a bronze of Victoria by Boehm, presented by the Queen to Disraeli when he left office in 1880; John Brown, by Landseer; signed photographs of statesmen (including Bismarck) at the Berlin Congress of 1878; Victorian Gothic furniture; and the working library of the Victorian Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), slightly depleted by twentieth-century sale, including within it a substantial remnant of the bibliomaniac library of his father, best-selling author Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1846). 1656 titles, including roughly 1000 nineteenth-century British books and over 500 earlier books. Presentation copies from, among others, Queen Victoria and Matthew Arnold. Some material relating to the Congress of Berlin, 1878, Anglo-Jewry, the proclamation of Victoria as Empress of India.
