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Country Houses

A substantial, illustrated study of Vanbrugh's gem.

Castle Howard

Christopher Ridgway

Hardback
£100.00

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A detailed celebration of the Elizabethan house, its interiors, collections and the Capability Brown parkland.

Burghley House

John Martin Robinson

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£60.00

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An exemplary study, via the great masterpieces (Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard etc). CSS casts the romantic, emotional work of Vanbrugh against that of his more staid contemporaries, Wren an... read more

John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture

Charles Saumarez Smith

Hardback
£29.99

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Over a dozen houses including Farmleigh, Luggala, Kenwood, Biddesden...

The Houses of Guinness: The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Bre ...

Adrian Tinniswood

Hardback
£30.00

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First edition. Near-fine copy in fine dust jacket. Top and bottom edges of page block somewhat shelfworn.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

David Cannadine

Hardback
£35

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Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Sir John Soane and The Country Estate

Ptolemy Dean

Hardback
£35

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First edition in very good condition, with a little shelf wear and some slightly bent page corners. Contains 127 illustrations.

The Work of John Vanbrugh

Geoffrey Beard

Paperback
£15

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First edition, signed by the author. In fine condition with a fine dust jacket. A very slight mark to top of page block.

George Vernon, 1636-1702 ‘Who Built This House’: Sudbury H ...

Cherry Ann Knott

Hardback
£75.00

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Very good in a fine dust jacket: the very last few pages (bibliography, index) have a water stain at the top and are slightly cockled, otherwise an excellent, bright copy.

The Architectural Works of A. W. N. Pugin: A Catalogue ...

G. J. Hyland

Hardback
£50

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A fine copy, almost as new, in a very good dust jacket: bright, clean and unmarred except for light tanning to the spine and a little shelfwear to the top of the spine. Has a bookseller's la... read more

Richard Norman Shaw

Andrew Saint

Hardback
£200

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First edition. Fine copy in a very good dust jacket, marred only by some creasing at the bottom left and corner of the front panel. Pages are crisp, clean and bright - about 500 pages of tex... read more

Charles Holden: Architect

Eltan Karol

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£100

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A handsomely produced book, now scarce. Near fine condition in a very good dust jacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Francis Johnson: Architect: A Classical Statement

John Martin Robinson

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£125

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Fine edition in a very good dust jacket, creased in top left corner of front cover but otherwise clean and bright.

Trumpet at a Distant Gate: The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House ...

Timothy Mowl

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£15

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Handsome two-volume set: a well-illustrated survey of the architecture and furniture design of English houses. Vol. I: 3rd ed. (1909) in good condition, with gold embossing on front and spin... read more

In English Homes (vol. I & II)

Charles Latham

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£150

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Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Holkham Hall

Leo Schmidt

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£50

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First edition in fine condition with fine dust jacket; almost as new. With bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Spencer House: Chronicle of a Great London Mansion

Joseph Friedman

Hardback
£75

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The lease was Beaton's. First edition, with many monochrome photographs. As new. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-Year Lease

Cecil Beaton

Paperback
£50

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First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Early Tudor Country House: Architecture and Politics, 1490-1550 ...

Maurice Howard

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£35

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First edition. A fine copy in a near-fine dust jacket with minimal shelf wear to the rear top edge.

English Country House Chapel

Annabel Ricketts

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£45

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First edition in near-fine condition with near-fine dust jacket; some minor foxing to top of page block and inside of dust jacket.

Houses of the Gentry, 1480-1680

Nicholas Cooper

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£50

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First edition in fine condition, almost as new, with a fine dust jacket; includes 200 illustrations, 20 of which are in colour.

The Disintegration of a Heritage: Country Houses and their Collections ...

Michael Sayer

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£15

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First edition, fine condition, with minimal shelf wear. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

Echoing Voices: More Memories of a Country House Snooper ...

John Harris

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£15

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A rare treasure: a first edition in as new condition, with gorgeous illustrations of this great Irish house; bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering.

Abbeyleix: An Irish Home and its Demesne

William Laffan

Hardback
£300

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First edition, first printing in fine condition with a fine dust jacket.

Luggala Days: The Story Of A Guinness House

Robert O'Byrne

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£50

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First edition. A very good edition of a smart volume on this great Irish house: would be listed 'as new' if not for the front board and spine becoming unstuck from the binding and front past... read more

Russborough: A Great Irish House, Its Families And Collections ...

William Laffan

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£100

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Very good copy with minimal shelf wear.

The Architecture of Richard Morrison and William Vitruvius Morrison ...

Patrick A Snadon

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£75

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First edition in near-fine condition with near-fine dust jacket; minimal shelf wear.

The Search for a Style: Country Life and Architecture, 1897-1935 ...

John Cornforth

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£15

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Second edition. A very good copy in very good dustjacket, but with sun-faded spine and some shelfwear to both top and bottom edges. An armorial bookplate of Sir Ewen Fergusson is pasted onto... read more

English Decoration in the 18th Century

John Fowler

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£30

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First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, minimal shelf wear to bottom of pages, otherwise in excellent condition.

The Great Country Houses of Central Europe: Czechoslovakia, Hungary an ...

Michael Pratt

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£50

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Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

William Kent, Landscape Garden Designer: An Assessment and catalogue o ...

John Dixton Hunt

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£25

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Eighteen women over five centuries: their travails, triumphs, influence, legacy - and their houses. Wonderful social history.

Mistress: A History of Women and their Country Houses ...

Anthony Fletcher

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£25

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Commissioned by James Beale in 1891, the Sussex house remained in the family until it went to the National Trust in 1972.

Standen: Philip Webb, Morris & Co. and the Creation of an Arts an ...

Anne Stutchbury

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£35

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A splendid illustrated book on this Palladian wonder, with scholarly essays on its artworks and library too.

Holkham: An English Treasure House and Its Landscape ...

Leo Schmidt

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£50.00

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Perfect English: Small and Beautiful

Ros Byam Shaw

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£40.00

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RO'B, aka The Irish Aesthete, that fount of knowledge, taste and carefully sifted old gossip, has chosen fifteen wildly different houses and interiors for this new book. His emphasis is on t... read more

The Irish Country House: A New Vision

Robert O'Byrne

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£50.00

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Billed as a prequel to his bestselling The Long Weekend, this is an authoritative romp to the tune of Coward's 'The Stately Homes of England' - their fabric and (some of) what went on in the... read more

The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War ...

Adrian Tinniswood

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£25.00

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