The stately homes of England with one hundred and seventy engravings on wood by Llewellynn Jewitt and S. C. Hall
LLewellynn Jewitt
RA Collection: Book
Record number
15/3019
Author
Edition
Second series
Imprint
London: Virtue and Company, Limited, 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1877
Physical Description
xii, 360, [1] pages: illustrations; 23 cm.
General Note
Loosely inserted a page from the Evening Standard, Wednesday December 1, 1937 an article titled 'The Stately Home is Obsolete by Rev. W. R. Inge.'
Half-title page: newspaper cutting on Glamis Castle pasted below the title. Inscribed in ink top of the page B. St John Mattews [...] Court 1881.
Verso of half-title page a pasted image of Levens Hall, Kendal.
Summary Note
Contents: Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire - Trentham, Staffordshire - Knole, Kent - Castle Howard, Yorkshire - Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire - Audley End, Essex - Burleigh, Lincolnshire - Hever Castle, Kent - Westwood Park, Worcestershire - Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire - Somerleyton, Suffolk - Wilton House, Wiltshire - Raby Castle, Durham - Cliefden, Buckinghamshire - Warnham Court, Sussex - Lowther Castle, Westmoreland - Clumber, Nottinghamshire - Welbeck, Nottinghamshire.
Binding Note
Original publisher's blue pebble-grain cloth, the upper board with title and panel blocked in gilt and black. Titled in gold on spine: `The Stately Homes of England. Illustrated.'
Subject
Historic buildings, England
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