Roger Pratt 1620-1685
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Sir Roger PRATT 1620-85
Biographical Note
Of Ryston Hall, Norfolk; architect.
Books
Known to have designed a library closet capable of holding ca. 400 vols. Family papers refer to a number of book purchases in the 1650s and 60s. 69 vols survive at Ryston today.
Characteristic Markings
The books held at Ryston are now in later (18th century) bindings and annotated with distinctive marginal pencil marks.
Sources
- Bold, John. "Pratt, Sir Roger (bap. 1620, d. 1685), architect." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Skelton, K. Reading as a gentleman and an architect: Sir Roger Pratt’s library, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society 53 (2009), 15-50.
- West, S. An architectural typology for the early modern country house library, 1660-1720, The Library 7th ser 14 (2013), 441-464, 449-50.
- West, S. The development of libraries in Norfolk country houses (UEA Ph.D thesis, 2000).