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    By Caroline Dakers
    New Haven and London   Yale University Press
    10.5" by 8" xviii, 278 pp.
    A first edition of Caroline Dakers’s richly detailed history of Clouds, the Arts and Crafts country house that became a centre of artistic and intellectual life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
    By Caroline Dakers

    1993 Clouds: Biography of a Country House

    New Haven and London   Yale University Press
    10.5" by 8" xviii, 278 pp.
    A first edition of Caroline Dakers’s richly detailed history of Clouds, the Arts and Crafts country house that became a centre of artistic and intellectual life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
    £45.00
    : 1kgs / : 981H29
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. 

    First edition.

    Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

    Richly illustrated, with many illustrations and photographs reproduced in full colour, some of which are full page.

    A vivid social and architectural history of Clouds, the Wiltshire country house designed by Philip Webb for Percy and Madeline Wyndham, key figures in the Arts and Crafts and “Souls” circles.

    Caroline Dakers is a British cultural historian specialising in art, design, and patronage.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding.  Externally, very smart. Fading to spine and extremities. Very minor shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper, very smart. Slight fading to extremities. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in one or two very minor closed tears to head of spine. One or two very minor handling marks to wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean.

    Very Good Indeed

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