SOME COTSWOLD COUNTRY HOUSES
Written by James Lees-Milne
Published by Dovecote Press
in 1987
ISBN: 0946159459
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- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- COTSWOLDS
- ARCHITECTURE
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SOME COTSWOLD COUNTRY HOUSES
Written by James Lees-Milne.
Stock no. 1831018
1st.
1987.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A Personal Selection of 28 houses known by the author in his lifetime. Contains extracts of the diary of Lees-Milne who in the 1930s and 40s travelled around country houses all over the country to try to persuade them to hand over their houses to the National Trust.Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 158 pages. ISBN: 0946159459. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned. A few faint foxspots an grubby marks to prelims. Price-cut green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, lightly edge-rubbed/creased and has a few minor marks.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Ablington Manor
- Alderley Grange
- Badminton House
- Barnsley Park
- Batsford Park
- Beverston Castle
- Bourton House
- Chastleton House
- Chavenage
- Cirencester House
- Cold Ashton Manor
- Compton Cassey House
- Cornwell Manor
- Daneway House
- Dyrham Park
- Eastington Manor
- Hidcote House
- Hilles, and Holcombe House
- Little Sodbury Manor
- Lodge Park, Sherborne
- Nether Lypiatt Manor
- Owlpen Manor
- Sezincote
- Sheldon Manor
- Snowshill Manor
- Stanway House
- Sudeley Castle
- Acknowledgements