Historic houses of Britain / Mark Girouard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Girouard, Mark, 1931-2022.

Contributor:

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country homes--Great Britain.

Country homes.

Great Britain.

Historic buildings--Great Britain.

Historic buildings.

Architecture, Domestic--Great Britain.

Architecture, Domestic.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered page, 185 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits (some color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

[London] : Peerage Books, [1984]

Contents:

1. Royal Residences: Hampton Court Palace, Greater London; The Royal Pavilion, Brighton; Sandringham House, Norfolk

2. Family Homes: Penshurst Place, Kent; Hatfield House, Hertfordshire; Traquair House, Peeblesshire; Chatsworth, Derbyshire; Castle Howard, Yorkshire; Blair Castle, Perthshire; Syon House, Greater London

3. Personal Reflections: Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; Stratfield Saye, Hampshire; Abbotsford, Roxburghshire; Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; Hughenden Manor, Bickinghamshire; Bateman's, Sussex

4. In Trust For The Nation: Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire; Cotehele, Cornwall; Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire; Erddig, Clwyd; Uppark, Sussex; Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd; Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Artus, 1979.

"This edition published in 1984 by Peerage Books."

Lining papers illustrated with early eighteenth-century view of Uppark by the Dutch painter Pieter Tillemans.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0907408834

9780907408833 :

OCLC:

12516488