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Nancy Lancaster. Her Life, Her World, Her Art
by BECKER, Robert
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- Hardcover
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1996.. Fourth printing. 8vo. xiv, 426, (2) pp. Publisher's grey cloth backed grey boards, silver lettering to the spine, dust jacket, inscribed by the author to the title page. Numerous black and white illustrations. Slight sunning to the jacket spine, inconspicuous tear to the foot of the lower panel, else very good. Nancy Lancaster (1897-1994) was an American socialite who settled in England in the 1920s after her marriage to the British politician Ronald Tree. Credited with having "the best taste of almost anyone in the world" she commissioned the redevelopment of several large properties in the Home Counties, bringing her into collaboration with the interior designers Colefax and Fowler. She is probably best known for the interior decoration of her post-War London residence in Mayfair and the house and gardens of Haseley Court in Oxfordshire, the latter prompting David Hicks to say she was "the most influential English gardener since Gertrude Jekyll". For many she is considered to be one of the creator's of the English Country House style.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40584
- Title
- Nancy Lancaster. Her Life, Her World, Her Art
- Author
- BECKER, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Alfred A Knopf
- Date Published
- 1996.
- Keywords
- Art
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Lewes, East Sussex
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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