SCOTTISH COUNTRY HOUSES 1600-1914
Written by Ian Gow, Alistair Rowan
Published by Edinburgh University Press
in 1998
ISBN: 0748610774
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SCOTLAND
- HISTORY
- ARCHITECTURE
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- HOMES AND HOUSING
- BUILDINGS
SCOTTISH COUNTRY HOUSES 1600-1914
Written by Ian Gow, Alistair Rowan.
Stock no. 1823405
1st thus.
1998.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
An insight into the Scottish country house in all its many guises, including much new research on significant but less familiar houses such as Kinneil, Relugas and Dunrobin. Pictorial card wraps. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0748610774. Spine is faded to the degree that the title cannot be read on spine. Contents fine.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- A List of Abbreviations
- 1 A Plethora of Palaces
- Some 'Castle-wise' County Houses of Early Renaissance Scotland, Charles McKean
- 2 Design Approaches in Early Post-Reformation Scots Houses, Aonghus Mackechnie
- 3 'Scarce a Finer Seat in Scotland'
- Kinneil Castle and the 4th Duke of Hamilton, Rosalind K. Marshall
- 4 Two Late Seventeenth-Century Designs for Kinnaird Castle, John G. Dunbar
- 5 Sir William Bruce's Design for Hopetoun House and its Forerunners, Deborah Howard
- 6 Organs, Orrerys and Others
- A Commission for Monymusk, Mary Cosh
- 7 An Account of the Reconstruction of William Adam's Design for Gladney House, with some Observations on the Other Early Projects, James Simpson
- 8 The Restoration of the House of Dun, David Learmont
- 9 Views in Scottish Houses, 1630-1770, James Holloway
- 10 John Elphinstone and the Castle of Glamis, Harry Gordon Slade
- 11 A Roger Morris-John Adam Episode in Astylar Palladianism, John Harris
- 12 A Bibliophile's Bagnio
- Sir James Clerk's Pantheon for Penicuik, Iain Gordon Brown
- 13 Robert Adam at Wlakinshaw, Frank Arneil Walker
- 14 Robert Adam and John Clerk of Eldin
- From Primitive Hut to Temple of Religion, Richard Emerson
- 15 David (or John?) Henderson's Designs for Caprington Castle, Ian Gow
- 16 'This Disagreeable Business'
- John Paterson against the Earl of Eglinton, Margaret H. B. Sanderson
- 17 'The New Square Style'
- Robert Smirk's Scottish Houses, J. Mordaunt crook
- 18 J.P. Neale and the View of Scotland, James Macaulay
- 19 John Smith and Craigievar Castle, William A. Brogden
- 20 A Neo-Baronial Monymusk Not built by William Burn, Alistair Rowan
- 21 The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland and Dunrobin Castle, John Gifford
- 22 Relugas and the Dick Lauder Family, Joe Rock
- 23 Introducing Alexander Roos, Howard Colvin
- 24 The Scottish Houses of William Leiper, John R. Hume
- 25 The County House, Larger Villas and Related Hotel Designs of Sir John James Burnet, David M. Walker
- 26 The Architect's House and the Search for a 'National Style' by William Leiper
- Acknowledgements
- Photographic Credits
- Index of Designers and Buildings