Town and country / Mark Girouard
1992, First Edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #382685
ISBN: 0300051859
Physical description: 274 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index. Contents; Introduction: Something of Myself -- I. The Town. 1. Coffee at Slaughter's: English Art and the Rococo. 2. The Baiting of Burghley: Politics and Architecture in Stamford. 3. Country-Town Portfolio: An Artist in Bridgwater. 4. Local Government in Spitalfields. 5. 'What a place is Whitby grown'. 6. The Birth of a Seaside Resort. 7. Pipe-Dreams in Manchester -- II. Irish Interlude. 1. A Country-House Childhood. 2. Belvedere and the Wicked Earl. 3. Miss Smith Comes to Tipperary. 4. Modernising an Irish Country House. 5. The Noblest Quay in Europe -- III. Country-House Excursions. 1. The Haynes Grange Room. 2. Solomon's Temple in Nottinghamshire. 3. Reconstructing Holdenby. 4. The Ghost of Elizabethan Chatsworth. 5. Country-House Pictures. 6. The Magic of Stowe. 7. What is a Villa? 8. The House and the Natural Landscape: A Prelude to Fallingwater -- IV. Jane Austen's World. 1. The Georgian House. Subjects: Architecture England Miscellanea. Architecture Ireland Miscellanea. Architecture. Social & history. Country homes. Architecture, English. Architecture, Georgian. Irish architecture. Landscape design.
Price: €18.00