The Edwardian Country House: A Social and Architectural History

by Clive Aslet

The magnificent country houses built in Britain between 1890 and 1939 were the last monuments to a vanishing age. Many of these great mammoths of domestic architecture were unsuited to the changes in economic and social priorities that followed the two world wars, and rapidly became extinct. Those that survive, however, provide tangible evidence of the life and death of an extraordinarily prosperous age. Originally published in 1980, long out of print...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071123339X
• ISBN13: 9780711233393
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.3" x 12.3"