Scottish Country Houses, 1600-1914 / Ian Gow, Alistair Rowan
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a very good dust wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #380174
ISBN: 9781474468602
Physical description : (368 p.) Notes : Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents : Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 A Plethora of Palaces -- 2 Design Approaches in Early Post-Reformation Scots Houses -- 3 'Scarce a Finer Seat in Scotland' -- 4 Two Late Seventeenth-Century Designs for Kinnaird Castle -- 5 Sir William Bruce's Design for Hopetoun House and Its Forerunners -- 6 Organs, Orrerys and Others -- 7 An Account of the Reconstruction of William Adam's Design for Gladney House, with some Observations on Other Early Projects -- 8 The Restoration of the House of Dun -- 9 Views in Scottish Houses, 1630-I770 -- 10 John Elphinstone and the Castle of Glamis -- 11 A Roger Morris-John Adam Episode in Astylar Palladianism -- 12 A Bibliophile's Bagnio -- 13 Robert Adam at Walkinshaw -- 14 Robert Adam and John Clerk of Eldin -- 15 David (or John?) Henderson's Designs for Caprington Castle -- 16 'This Disagreeable Business' -- 17 'The New Square Style' -- 18 J. P. Neale and the Views of Scotland -- 19 John Smith and Craigievar Castle -- 20 A Neo-Baronial Monymusk Not Built by William Burn -- 21 The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland and Dunrobin Castle -- 22 Relugas and the Dick Lauder Family -- 23 Introducing Alexander Roos -- 24 The Scottish Houses of William Leiper -- 25 The Country House, Larger Villas and Related Hotel Designs of Sir John James Burnet -- 26 The Architect's House and the Search for a 'National Style' -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- Photographic Credits -- Index of Designers and Buildings. Subjects : Cruft, Kitty. Cruft.
History 1600-1914. Scottish Studies. ARCHITECTURE?/ History / General. Castles Scotland. Architecture, Domestic Scotland. Dwellings Scotland.
Price: €32.00