Country houses from the air
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Country houses from the air
Classmark: Bedford Collection D221
Creator(s): Tinniswood, Adrian
Additional creator(s): Hawkes, Jason (Photographer (expression)); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1994
Language: English
Size and medium: 160 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/719113
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019739846005181
Description
Illustrations on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
Introduction -- Lords of creation. Blenheim Palace; Althorp ; Kensington Palace ; Audley End ; Ragley Hall ; Knole ; Arundel ; Broome Park ; Badminton -- Nature tamed. Newby Hall ; Chirk Castle ; Wrest Park ; Dyrham Park ; Hampton Court ; Painswick House ; Wilton House ; Temple Newsam -- Personal statements. Longleat ; Belton House ; Wollaton Hall ; Ashdown House ; Belvoir Castle ; Chatsworth -- Visions of England. Ightham Mote ; Brympton D'Evercy ; Whixley ; Stanway House ; Doddington Hall ; Groombridge Place ; Alhelhampton ; Penshurst Place -- Fortune's wheel. Boarstall Tower ; Bradgate House ; Uppark ; Bolsover Castle ; Didmarton Manor ; Ingress Abbey ; Leyborne Castle ; Lulworth Castle -- Gazetteer.
A collection of aerial photographs of 40 country houses and their estates contrasted with historical portraits and engravings of the same houses in centuries past. The text tells the stories behind each house, the lives of the owners and alterations to house and garden.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at D221: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front flyleaf: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: HE/67.
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