Aurum's book on England's Lost Houses, published in association with Country Life, was an exceptional success, going into several reprints, generating a wealth of publicity, and tapping into the enormous nostalgia and mystique that surrounds the stately homes and country houses that have vanished for ever, for reasons of fire, dry rot, subsidence or simply demolition by an earlier, less conservation-minded age. For these often spectacular houses, the photographs in the book are the only record that they ever existed. Now ...
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Aurum's book on England's Lost Houses, published in association with Country Life, was an exceptional success, going into several reprints, generating a wealth of publicity, and tapping into the enormous nostalgia and mystique that surrounds the stately homes and country houses that have vanished for ever, for reasons of fire, dry rot, subsidence or simply demolition by an earlier, less conservation-minded age. For these often spectacular houses, the photographs in the book are the only record that they ever existed. Now Aurum publishes a companion volume on the lost houses of Scotland. One, Mavisbank, will be known to BBC viewers from the first series of the hugely successful Restoration. Other featured houses include Douglas Castle, Gordon Castle, Guisachan, Dunglass and Millearne among many others. The lavish photographic content derives primarily from the matchless archive of the National Monuments Record in Edinburgh, but will also draw on Country Life's photographs, local archives, and even the remarkable albums taken by a Perthshire demolition contractor in the fifties as he sought to memorialise his handiwork in dynamiting country houses.
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Add this copy of Scotland's Lost Houses to cart. $33.72, very good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Aurum Press.
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VG+/VG. Gray cloth boards with silver spine lettering, bw illustrated dust jacket with white and pale yellow lettering, pale blue spine with light yellow lettering, bw illustrated end pages, bw frontispiece, 192 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. "Ian Gow has selected twenty of Scotland's most important lost houses, and prefaced these with a comprehensive introductory survey of the whole era of destruction. For anyone who mourns the impoverishment of Scotland's architectural heritage, this book will be a plangent and nostalgic experience."--Jacket.
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First edition (hardback). 4to (31cm by 25cm), 192pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original grey cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 9781845130510.
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Very good. Same day dispatch. Neatly repaired one cm nick to the top of the jacket at the front board otherwise both book and jacket are in very good condition.
Add this copy of Scotland's Lost Houses to cart. $76.05, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Aurum Press.