FIRST EDITION QUARTO BLUE CLOTH WITH WORN DUSTWRAPPER. THE STORY OF HOWE’S CAREER AS TOLD BY AN ARCHITECT AND HISTORIAN. ILLUS. IN BLACK AND WHITE. VERY SCARCE IN THE UK.
A FINE COPY IN PINK AND BLACK BOARDS IN A SLIGHTLY FINGERED SPINE AT THE TOP. FOR THE FIRST TIME REVISED WITH ANNOTATIONS BY THE AUTHOR TOGETHER WITH A BEAUTIFUL FOLDING ILLUSTRATION NINE FEET LONG SPECIALLY DRAWN BY MR. PETER FLEETWOOD HESKETH. NEAT NAME IN INK ON FEP.
QUARTO FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP. APPROXIMATELY TWO-THIRDS OF THE 780 ILLUSTRATIONS WERE ESPECIALLY PHOTOGRAPHED FOR THIS VOLUME. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ACHIM BEDNORZ.
LARGE FORMAT. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. A LITTLE FOXING ON F.E.P. THE ROYAL HOUSES OF FOURTEEN COUNTRIES – CASTLES FORTS COUNTRY-HOUSES AND PALACES – ARE THE SUBJECT OF THIS SUPERB BOOK. THEY PROVIDE A RICH AND EXOTIC PICTURE OF THE AWESOME SPLENDOUR WHICH ONCE SURROUNDED THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE AND WHICH STILL LINGERS IN THE DESERTED THRONE ROOMS STATE BEDCHAMBERS COURTYARDS AND GARDENS OF VERSAILLES SCHONBRUNN THE ESCORIAL OR THE WINTER PALACE.
