ABC/324 - English homes. - Period 2-vol.1: Early Tudor, 1485-1558. - 2nd ed.

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ABC/324

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English homes. - Period 2-vol.1: Early Tudor, 1485-1558. - 2nd ed.

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  • 1929 (Creation)

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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 Early Tudor period, 1485-1558. It comprises an Introduction, followed by the Descriptive and Critical text of the listed Buildings. The text is accompanied by numerous plates (photographs) that illustrate the powerful Influences the Renaissance had on the late Medieval Architectural Style. Buildings included: Boughton Melherbe, Kent; Buckden Old Palace, Huntingdonshire; Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire; Cowdray House, Sussex; East Barsham Manor House, Norfolk; Fawsley, near Daventry, Northamptonshire; Giffords Hall, Wickhambrook, Suffolk; Great Fulford, Devonshire; Hengrave Hall, Suffolk; Horham Hall, Essex; Lacock Abbey, Chippenham, Wiltshire; Layer Marney, Essex; Leez Priory, Essex; Lyddington Bede House, Rutlandshire; Muchelney Abbey, Somerset; Parham Old Hall, Suffolk; Paycocke's House, Essex; St. Osyth's Priory, Essex; Skipton Castle, Yorkshire; Sutton Place, Surrey; Thame Park, Oxfordshire; The Vyne, Hampshire; Thornbury Castle, Gloucestershire; Weare Giffard, Devon; Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire; West Stow Hall, Suffolk; Abbot's House, Shrewbury; Astonbury, Hertfordshire; Aubyns, Essex; Barrington Court, Somerset; Beaudesert, Devonshire; Bingham's Melcombe, Dorsetshire; Bolebroke, Sussex; Bradfield Manor, Essex; Bradley Manor, Staffordshire; Colyton Parsonage, Devonshire; Coughton Court, Warwickshire; Denston Priests' House, Suffolk; Dingley Hall, Northamptonshire; Down Ampney, Gliucestershire; Forde Abbey Dorsetshire; Forde's Hospital, Warwickshire; Fyrle Place, Sussex; Great Snoring, Norfolk; Holcombe Court, Devonshire; Josselyn's, Essex; Kentwell Hall, Suffolk; Marquess of Grandby, Colchester; Mathern Palace, Monmouthshire; Milton, Northamptonshire; Montacute House, Somerset; Montacute Priory, Somerset; Old Buckhurst, Sussex; Parnham, Dorsetshire; Pittleworth, Hants; Red Lion, Colchester; Saighton Grange, Cheshire; Somerset House, London; Southfields, Essex; Titchfield Place, Hants; Tolleshunt Darcy, Essex; Waltham Abbey, Essex; West Stockwell Street, Colchester; Winchester College Oak Boarding; Wolfeton House, Dorset.

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    Very good condition

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