DARTINGTON HALL
by Emery, Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: The Clarendon Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. (x), 280, plates pages; Contents clean and secure in original tan cloth binding in edgeworn dustjacket. Illustrated throughout, including folding plans of the buildings at end of text. Large heavy book may acquire increased shipping. Dartington Hall in Dartington, near Totnes, Devon, England, is an historic house and country estate of 1,200 acres (4.9 km2) dating from medieval times. The group of late 14th century buildings are Grade I listed; described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as "one of the most spectacular surviving domestic buildings of late Medieval England", along with Haddon Hall and Wingfield Manor. The medieval buildings are grouped around a huge courtyard; the largest built for a private residence before the 16th Century, and the Great Hall itself is the finest of its date in England. The west range of the courtyard is regarded nationally as one of the most notable examples of a range of medieval lodgings. The medieval buildings were restored from 1926 to 1938. AUTHOR: Anthony Emerys career as an architectural historian was launched with this wonderful monograph on Dartington Hall analysing the most spectacular medieval mansion in the West of England. Specialist studies on Wingfield Manor, Raglan Castle and Penshurst Place were preparatory to his survey of all the principal (and some of the lesser) medieval residences of England and Wales. It took eighteen years to describe and assess over 750 houses built between 1300 and 1500, published in three volumes as Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales (CUP 1996-2006). .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44632
- Title
- DARTINGTON HALL
- Author
- Emery, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dartingtin Hall, British Architecture, Medieval Residential Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art and Art History; European History; Architecture;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Antiquarian Book Shop
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