London's Mansions: The Palatial Houses of the Nobility
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1986. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, gilt letters on spine. 224 pp., 166 BW illus. top edge red. glossy red & sepia-toned pictorial dustjacket w/ grey, white printing. VG/VG (light wear to cloth; rubbed shelf-wear to edges & corners. spine ends bumped, crinkled. dustjacket has creased, rubbed & curled edge-wear; rubbing to corners; front flap price-clipped w/ euro sticker, curling to upper edges of flaps.). Item #150868
ISBN: 9780713446524
"A complete history of the palatial town house in London -- the first full account since 1908, a date when these houses and the way of life they were built to accommodate were still apparently secure. Although the country houses belonging to the same great families are well documented, the architectural history of London's mansions remains relatively unknown. The construction of the great houses is followed westwards across London, from the medieval buildings int eh City, through developments along the Strand, and the Savoy Palace (home of John of Gaunt), to seventeenth-century Piccadilly, eighteenth-century Mayfair and nineteenth-century Park Lane. Although a few of these mansions survive, many were demolished earlier this century."--Publisher.
OCLC: 13999697
Price: $60.00