Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660-1880
London / New York: Hambledon and London, 2000. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, color pictorial dust jacket, 428 pp., 134 BW illus. "Building and rebuilding their houses was one of the main concerns of the English nobility and gentry, some might sayt their greatest achievement. This is the..... More