The English Counrty House: A Grand Tour
by Jackson-Stops, Gervase and James Pipkin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0821215981
- ISBN 13
- 9780821215982
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985 First American. Oblong quarto. Hardcover. 240pp. Index. Illustrated with 180 color photographs. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. A very fine copy with very fine pictorial dust jacket. This book complements one of the largest exhibitions ever mounted at The National Gallery of Art, Washington: "The Treasure Houses of Britain: 500 Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting"..
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- Bookseller
- Argonaut Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6423
- Title
- The English Counrty House: A Grand Tour
- Author
- Jackson-Stops, Gervase and James Pipkin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0821215981
- ISBN 13
- 9780821215982
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Architecture, Interior Design, England, Country House, Britain
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