By J. T. Cliffe
New Haven; London   Yale University Press
10.5" by 8" 232 pp.
A first edition, richly illustrated study of the seventeenth-century English country house, examining its architecture, decoration, and social significance within early modern gentry life.
By J. T. Cliffe

1999 The World of the Country House in Seventeenth Century England

New Haven; London   Yale University Press
10.5" by 8" 232 pp.
A first edition, richly illustrated study of the seventeenth-century English country house, examining its architecture, decoration, and social significance within early modern gentry life.
£48.00
: 0.75kgs / : 981H26

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

In the publisher's original brown cloth binding. 

First edition.

Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Richly illustrated, with many illustrations in colour. 

A detailed study of the English country house in the seventeenth century, exploring its architecture, decoration, and social role as a symbol of power, refinement, and a centre of rural society.

J. T. Cliffe was a noted historian of early modern England, was acclaimed for his works on the English gentry and regional society.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely, with the slightest shelf wear and fading to extremities. Dust wrapper, very smart. Spine faded. Slight fading to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout.

Fine

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