Description: London: Country Life. 1916. First edition, folio, pp. xl, 436, 39cm. Beautifully bound in quarter cloth with red leather on spine & corners and buckram on the rest. Spine has 5 raised bands with 2 of the compartments lettered in gilt. Light foxing along the edges and the prelims. Tipped-in frontispiece. Filled with several b/w photos. "Twenty-five great houses of France are illustrated and described in the following pages. They range in character from the citadel of a royal borough to the country seat of a Minister of State, from a great fortified monastic establishment exposed on its beetling rock to the buffets of wind and ocean to a substantial burgher's residence snugly ensconced in the crowding streets of a great city. In date they range over five centuries. They have commended themselves for selection by very various qualifications; one as a type of mediaeval military engineering; another as pre-eminent for its picturesque qualities; a third as endowed with the choicest beauties of the architecture of its age; a fourth for the importance of the part it has played in history of for the romantic careers of its owners."
Price: 100 USD
Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Signed: No
Publisher: Country Life
Subject: French Architecture
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1916
Language: English
Illustrator: NA
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Sir Theodore Andrea Cook
Region: Europe
Personalized: No
Topic: Architecture
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Character Family: French Houses
