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ABC/329
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Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britan
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- 1927 (Creation)
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1 volume
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A volume dedicated to the study of Plasterwork in Great Britain, with relevant examples that show the architectural changes affecting the Domestic Interiors, from Henry VIII to the outbreak of the French Revolution, beginning of the 16th to the 18th century. It contains an Introduction, Chapters with Descriptive and Critical Text on the phases of change, accompanied by numerous photographic plates showing interior and exterior designs of Plasterwork (ceilings, aminals, drawings, flowers, figures, birds, badges, fruit, frescoes, emblems, art, arms, foliage, friezes, letters, monograms, pendants, pilasters, walls, medallion heads) from various locations. Buildings included: Acklam Hall, Yorks; Alnwick Castle, Northumberland; Apethorpe, Northants; Apollo, Drury Lane, Theatre; Appleton, Berks; Apsley House, London; Arbury Hall, Warwickshire; Arncliffe Hall, Yorks; Arniston Hall, Midlothian; Ashburnham House, Westminster; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Aspley Guise, Bedford; Aston Hall, Warwick; Audley End, Essex; Balcaskie House, Fifeshire; Balls Park, Herts; Bank of England; Banqueting House, Whitehall; Bardolph, at Rothamstead, Herts; Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire; Beauchamps, Essex; Beckington Abbey, Somerset; Belton House, Lincs; Beningborough Hall, Yorks; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; Blickling Hall, Norfolk; Bloomsbury, London; Board of Trade Offices, the Old, London; Boston House, Brentford; Bovey House, Devon; Bowood, Wiltshire; Bowringsleigh, Devon; Bramham Park, Yorks; Bramshill Park, Hants; Brickwall House, Sussex; Brodie Castle, Morayshire; Bromley-by-Bow Palace; Brooks's Club in St. James's Street, London; Buckingham Palace, London; Burlington Gardens; Burton Agnes, Yorks; Burton Hall, Middlesex; Cambridge University, Library; Canonbury Place, Somerset Lodge, Islington; Canons Ashby, Northants; Carlton House, London; Caroline Park, Midlothian; Castle Ashby, Northants; Castle Howard, Yorks; Cavendish; Charlton House, Kent; Charterhouse, London; Chastleton House, Oxon; Chastsworth House, Derbyshire; Chelsea Hospital, London; Chelvey Court, Somerset; Chesterfield House, London; Childwickbury, Herts; Chilham Castle, Kent; Chiswick House, Midlesex; Christ Church College, Oxford; House at Clare, Suffolk; Claydon House, Surrey; Coleshill, Berks; Combe Abbey, Gloucestershire; Compton Church, Surrey; Conarquis, Essex; Court House, East Quantockshead, Somerset; Cowgate, Edinburgh, French Ambassador's House; Craigievar Castle, Aberdeenshire; Crewe Hall, Cheshire; Crown House, Newport, Essex; Deene Park, Northants; Denham Place, Bucks; Derby House, Grosvenor Square, London; Devonshire House, London; Dorfold, Cheshire; Dunster Castel, Somerset; Easton Neston, Northants; Eaton Hall, Cheshire; Emral Hall, Flintshire; Euston Hall, Suffolk; The Great Fire of London; Fish Room, Audley End, Essex; Fitzroy Square, London; Palace of Fontainebleau; Ford House, Devonshire; Forde Abbey, Dorsetshire; Foundling Hospital, London; Fyvie Hall, Aberdeenshire; Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire; Gilling Castle, Yorkshire; Glamis Castle, Forfarshire; Greenwich Hospital, London; Groombridge Place, Kent; Grove Place, Hants; Gwydir Castle, Carnarvon; Haddon Hall, Derbyshire; Hagley Park, Worchestershire; Halswell Park, Somerset; Hampton Court Palace; Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire; Hardwick House, near Pangbourne; Harewood House, Yorkshire; Harleyford, Buck; Heaton Hall, Manchester; Herringston, Dorsetshire; Heveningham Hall, Suffolk; Heythrop, Oxon; Holcombe Court, Devonshire; Holkham Hall, Norfolk; Holme Lacy, Herefordshire; Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh; Home House, Portman Square, London; Honington Hall, Warwickshire; Houghton Hall, Norfolk; Kedleston, Derbyshire; Kellie Castle, Fifeshire; Kensington Palace, London; Kenwood, Middlesex; Kew Gardens; Kinross House; Kimbolton, Hunts; Kirby Hall, Northants; Kirlington Park, Oxon; Knole, Kent; Langleys, Essex; Lanhydrock, Cornwall; Lansdowe House, Berkeley Square, London; Lennoxlove, Haddingtonshire; Levens Hall, Westmorland; Lincoln's Inn Fields, no. 46, London; Littlecote House, near Hungerford; Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire; Liverpool Street Station, London; Longleat, Wiltshire; Lullingstone, Kent; Lumley Castle, Durham; Luton, Lady Bute's House; Macmorran, Baillie; Mapperton House, Dorsetshire; Marble Hill, Twickenham; Maser, near Treviso, Palladio's Villa; Mawley Hall, Shropshire; Melton Constable, Norfolk; Mereworth Castle, Kent; Merton College, Oxford; Moor Park, Herts; Moray House, Canongate; Museum, South Kensington; Nettlecombe Court, Somerset; Newcastle House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London; Newgate Prison, London; New Place, Sheffield, Hants; Newport, Essex; New River Company's Offices, London; Palace of Nonsuch, Cheam, Surrey; North Audley Street, no. 12, London; Nostell Priory, Yorks; Oriel College, Oxford; Oxford, Radcliffe Library; Oxford University, Chirst Church College; Pantheon in the Oxford Road, London; Park Hall, Shropshire; Parthenon; Penheale Manor, Cornwall; Pindar's House, Sir Paul, London; Pinkie House, Midlothian; Plas Mawr, Conway; Pollock House, Renfrew; Portman House, London; Powderham Castle, Devonshire; Powis Castle, Welshpool; Prior Park, Bath; House at Prittlewell, Essex; Queen's College, Oxford; Quenby Hall, Leicestershire; Ragley, Warwickshire; Rainham Hall, Norfolk; Red Lodge, Bristol; Reindeer Inn, Banbury, Oxon; Ribston Hall, Yorkshire; Richmond Bridge, Surrey; Bury Hall, Middlesex; Rothamsted, Herts; Royal Academy at Somerset House, London; Royal Arms; Ryston Hall, Norfolk; St. Catherine Coleman, Fenchurch St., London; St. Catherine Cree, London; St. Charles-the-Martyr, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London; St. James's Church, Picadilly, London; St. James's Square, no. 20, London; St. John's College, Oxford; St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London; St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford; St. Mary Woolnoth Church, London; St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall; St. Paul's Cathedral, London; St. Stephen, Walbrook; Houses at Saffron Walden; Saltram, Devonshire; Shuttleworth of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire; Sizergh Castle, Westmorland; Sledmere, Yorkshire; Soho Square, no. 30, London; Somerset House, London; Somerset Lodge, Canonbury Place, Islington; Southwold Church, Suffolk; South Wraxall Manor, Wiltshire; Sparrow's House, Ipswich; Speke Hall, Lancashire; Spencer House, London; Stockton House, Wiltshire; Stoke Edith, Herefrodshire; Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire; Strawberry Hill; Sudbrook, Petersham; Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire; Suffolk, Lady, Marble Hill, and no. 12, North Audley Street; Thame Park, Oxon; Thirlestane Castle, Berwickshire; Thorpe Hall, Northants; Tottenham, Vicarage; Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire; Trinity College, Oxford; Uppark, Suffolk; Villa Capra, Vicenza; Weald Hall, Essex; Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorks; Westwood Park, Worcester; Wilton, Wilts, Inigo Jones; Wingerworth Hall, Derbyshire; Winton Castle, East Lothian; House at Wivenhoe, Essex; Wrotham Park, Bedford; Wynns of Plas Mawr and Gwyndir; Yanwath Hall, Westmorland.
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General good condition. loose pages