Apethorpe
The Story of an English Country House
ISBN: HB: 9780300148701,
Yale University Press,
March 2016
480 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
480 pp., 29,2x24,1 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
This beautiful publication narrates the romantic biography of an architecturally significant country residence and its rescue from decline. Dating from the mid-15th century, Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was home to a succession of leading courtiers...
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£60.00
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Carscapes
The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England
ISBN: HB: 9780300187045,
Yale University Press,
October 2012
400 pp., 28,6x24,1 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
400 pp., 28,6x24,1 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose – drivers couldn't travel very far or very quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the archit...
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£40.00
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