In this book, Mark Girouard tells how he became intrigued by architecture as a small boy. Combining anecdote and information about both buildings and their inhabitants, he writes of the places he has visited in town and country. Girouard provides an interpretation of the English origins of rococo art, he describes the formation of an English seaside resort, recreates the Georgian architecture and society of Jane Austen's world and traces changing attitudes towards landscape in architecture from 18th-century Britain to 20th ...
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In this book, Mark Girouard tells how he became intrigued by architecture as a small boy. Combining anecdote and information about both buildings and their inhabitants, he writes of the places he has visited in town and country. Girouard provides an interpretation of the English origins of rococo art, he describes the formation of an English seaside resort, recreates the Georgian architecture and society of Jane Austen's world and traces changing attitudes towards landscape in architecture from 18th-century Britain to 20th-century America. Old Slaughter's Coffee-House in the mid-18th century; Holdenby, an Elizabethan great house build by a lord who was called by his contemporaries a mere vegetable of the court that sprung up at night and sank again at...noon; Belvedere, the 18th-century Irish country house that was witness to a tragic story of adultery and revenge; these are just a few of the buildings described by Girouard in these essays on architecture and society in bygone eras of England and Ireland.
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Very Good. Very Good Plus Dust Jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. pp. 274. 274 pp. Tightly bound. Light, minor ding to just the tip of the top right corner front board. One light ding to lower edge back board. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good plus dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
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Collectible-Very Good. 1992-Oversized Hardback with dustjacket. Book is in very good condition. Book has light shelf wear. Dustjacket has light shelf wear, crease on flap. NO International or Priority. Free tracking with domestic orders. MD SKU-6955304.
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Fine+ in Fine dust jacket. 0300051859. Appears to be new book. No marks in or on book. DJ has been laminated in document protection film. Very nice copy; 1.18 x 10.47 x 8.58 Inches; 288 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 10x8x1; Hardbound book in very good+ condition, crisp, immaculate and sharp-cornered throughout, with the exception of a 1/8" round white abrasion in upper left of front board and a 1/8" dimple to bottom edge of rear board. Full color dust jacket in mylar has traces of normal shelfwear, otherwise also crisp and fresh.
