From literature, social chronicles, and family documents comes a study of the evolution and social role of the English country house since the Middle Ages

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History

History

GIrouard, Mark

Europe

Penguin??Books

Girouard, Mark. The Victorian Country House. First Edition. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971. 24cm x 32cm. 218 pages with fold out maps and 420 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Includes for example: The Upper classes adapt to their circumstances/ The men who built the country houses/ A country house analysis/ A run round the Nouveaux-riches/ Victorian Gentlemen: The Ideal/ The Victorian Gentlemen's house/ The Building of a country house/ The Choice of Architect/ Materials old and new/ Technology and the country house: Plumbing, heating and Ventilation/ Gas and electricity/ Technology, Comfort. Snobbery and Aesthetics/ The Country House Plan/ The Servants Wing/ Nuances and Drawbacks of the Victorian Planning/ The Historical Development of the Plan: William Burn/ The Male Domain/ The Conservatory/ The Great Hall/ The Picturesque versus the Functional: Pugin/ Barry, Blore, Burn and Salvin/ The Battle of the Styles/ The High Victorian Years/ Muscularity/ Texture. Colour and Ruskin/ High Victorian Attitutes : The Pugin Tradition/ High Victorian Attitudes The Picturesque Tradition/ The Revolt of teh Goths/ The Architect as Artist/ Artistic Houses and Artistic People/ Kerr and Stevenson/ The Old English Style/ Leys Wood/ 'Queen Anne'/ Shaw: Composition and Planning/ The Hall Revived/ Philip Webb/ Clouds/ Shaw's Contemporaries : Ernest George/ George Devey/ The First steps to Neo-Georgian/ Bayons Manor/ Scarisbrick Hall/ Merevale Hall/ Highclere Castle/ Prestwold Hall/ Peckforton Castle/ Osborne/ Treberfydd/ Horsted Place/ Milton Ernest Hall/ Woodchester Park/ Shadwell Park/ The Crossleys of Hallifax and their buildings/ Devey in Kent: Betteshanger St Albans Court/ Kelham Hall/ Brodsworth Hall/ Humewood Castle/ Bear Wood/ Cardiff Castle/ Kinmel Park/ Cragside/ Beauvale Lodge/ Carlton Towers/ Castell Coch/ Adcote/ Ken Hill/ Wightwick Manor/ St..

The Victorian country house

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Clarendon Press

Will be dispatched from UK. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.

Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement 1860-1900

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Oxford University Press

Victorian pubs

Studio Vista

Physical description; vii, 467 p. : ill., facsims on endpapers, maps, plans, ports. ; 27 cm. Subjects; Country homes Great Britain. Architecture, Victorian Great Britain.

The Victorian Country House

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

Recounts the circumstances surrounding the planning and design of a building for London's Natural History Museum, and examines how political and architectural difficulties were overcome

Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Describes the career of the seventeenth-century British architect, looks at his designs for rural mansions and castles, and discusses his contributions to their interior decoration

Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House

Yale Univ Pr

Profusely illustrated, primarily in black and white.

Victorian Pubs

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Dust Jacket in Very Good condition.

A Country House Companion

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classes―their public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes.
"A deeply important book, one of the most interesting contributions to architectural history."―J. H. Plumb, The New York Review of Books
"A survey of country houses through the past five centuries, from a broad range of materials: family archives, literature, plans and photographs.... The book itself is a physical artifact of surpassing beauty which could fit on the grandest table in the houses it describes."―David Hackett Fischer, The New Republic
"Informative, balanced, knowledgeable, and witty."―The New Yorker
"This enthralling and immensely informative book...tells with wit, scholarship, and lucidity how the country house evolved to meet the needs and reflect the social attitudes of the times."―Philip Ziegler, The Times
"One of those very useful and very enjoyable books that the learned can seldom write, and the entertaining seldom achieve―clear, detailed, and witty."―Angus Wilson, The Observer
Winner of the 1978 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith &amp; Son Annual Literary Award for 1979.

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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History

The Victorian country house

Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement 1860-1900

Victorian pubs

The Victorian Country House

Alfred Waterhouse and the Natural History Museum

Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House

Victorian Pubs

A Country House Companion

Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History