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Lasting Elegance: English Country Houses 1830-1900
by Hall, Michael
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- Hardcover
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Monacelli Press, for Random House, New York 2009. 31.0 x 25.0cms, 192pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: 18837, revolution & reaction: 1850, battle of the styles; 1860, lords of creation: 1870, Christian duty; 1880, from idyll to elergy; 1890, seductive images.
Synopsis
Michael Hall is a noted architectural historian and the editor of Apollo magazine. A former architectural editor and deputy editor of Country Life , he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a trustee of Emery Walker's Arts and Crafts house and Chairman of the Victorian Society's activities committee. His books include Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House and The English Country House: From the Archives of Country Life 1897–193 9.
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 190253
- Title
- Lasting Elegance: English Country Houses 1830-1900
- Author
- Hall, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Monacelli Press, for Random House, New York 2009
- Keywords
- country life
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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