The English Country House: From the Archives of "Country Life", 1897-1939

Hall, Michael J. W.

This collection of photographs from the extensive "Country Life" picture library, published here with accompanying essays by architectural writer Michael Hall, offers a unique pictorial insight into life in the English country house during its heyday in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras, before many houses were destroyed or left to decay after World War II.

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A captivating archival photographic survey drawn from Country Life that chronicles the twilight of Britain's grandest domestic architecture before the Second World War.

EAN

9781857325300

Publisher

Mitchell Beazley

Published

14 November 1994

Pages

192

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