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Summary
Author: Girouard, Mark
Title: The Victorian country house. Revised and enlarged edition.
Publication: New Haven, Yale University Press 1979.
Price: Sold
Reference: 10161
Full Description
4to. vii + (3) + 467 + (1)pp, 427 photo ills, 31 plans. Publisher's cloth, in dustwrapper. Jill Allibone's copy, with her bookplate.
An enlarged version of a book first published in 1971 which has remained the most evocative study of British country house architecture in the Victorian era. Its separate chapters describe over thirty individual houses, ranging from Salvin and Burn's Harlaxton Manor to William Burges's Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch.