ABC/323 - English homes. - Period 4 - vol.1: Late Stuart, 1649-1714.

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ABC/323

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English homes. - Period 4 - vol.1: Late Stuart, 1649-1714.

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  • 1929 (Creation)

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1 volume

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(22 Aug 1855–16 Nov 1933)

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British writer on country houses and gardens, a garden designer, and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine for 17 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Avray_Tipping

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A Study of the English Homes from the Late Stuart period, 1649-1714. It comprises an Introduction, followed by the Descriptive and Critical text of a group of Country Houses belonging to the first part of the period termed, architecturally, the Late Renaissance. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs, plans) that illustrate the characteristics of these constructions. Buildings included: Belton House, Lincs; Chatsworth, Derbyshire; Coleshill House, Wilts; Combe Abbey, Warwiclshire; Compton Park, Wilts; Cound Hall, Shrewsbury; Drayton House, Northants; Dyrham Park, Glos; Eltham Lodge, Kent; Erddig Park, Denbighshire; Glenham Hall, Suffolk; Hackwood Park, Hants; Ham House, Surrey; Hanbury Hall, Worcs; Kimbolton Caslte, Hunts; Longnor Hall, Stretton; Moyles Court, Hants; Shavington, near Market Drayton, Salop; The Moot, Downton, Wilts; Thorney Abbey House, Cambridgeshire; Thorpe Hall, Peterborough, Northants; Tyttenhanger, St. Albans, Herts; Uppark, Sussex; Ven House, Somerset; Arbury Hall, Warwickshire; Ashburnham House, London; Ashdown House, Berkshire; Balls Park, Hertfordshire; Banqueting House, Whitehall, London; Brympton D'Evercy, Somerset; Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire; Chevening, Kent; Farnham Castle, Surrey; Forde Abbey, Dorsetshire; Hall Barn, Buckinghamshire; Hamsptead Marshall, Berkshire; Hardwick Hall, Shropshire; Okeover Hall, Staffordshire; Powis Castle, Montgomeryshire; Stonyhurst College, Lancashire; Uffington House, Stamford; Wilton House, Salisbury; Wolseley Hall, Staffordshire; Wolvesey Palace, Winchester; Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.

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