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The country house revealed : a secret history of the British ancestral home / by Dan Cruickshank.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA655 .C78 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cruickshank, Dan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country homes--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
- Country homes.
- Country homes--Great Britain--History.
- Physical Description:
- 288 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports., plans, facsims. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : BBC Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Spanning the architectural history of the country house, from the Tudor ebullience of East Barsham Manor, the beauty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the palatial Georgian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse. Also includes chapters on South Wraxall Manor, Kinross House, Clandeboye House, and Marshcourt.
- Notes:
- "This book is published to accompany the television series entitled The Country House Revealed, produced by Oxford Film & Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 2011"--P. 288.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-182) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Ellis A. Wasson, Ph.D.
- ISBN:
- 9781849902069 (hbk)
- 1849902062 (hbk)
- OCLC:
- 701112024
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