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Sir John Vanbrugh : storyteller in stone / Vaughan Hart
by Hart, Vaughan (1960-)
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0300119291
- ISBN 13
- 9780300119299
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About This Item
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 288 pp., illustrations (some color), maps, 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Preface. Tory mobs and ignorant priests -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. ""Without thought or lecture"" : the early influences on Vanbrugh -- Ch. 2. ""The historicall argument"" : the Order of the Garter and Vanbrugh's 'castle air' -- Ch. 3. ""Agreable objects"" : Vanbrugh on architecture, landscape, and mood -- Ch. 4. ""The Reverend look of a temple"" -- Ch. 5. ""Wonder enough in the story"" : Castle Howard and Blenheim -- Ch. 6. Something of the castle air"" : characters in stone at Kimbolton and Seaton Delaval -- Ch. 7. ""Pleas'd to storm my castle"" : Englishmen's homes and castles at Kings Weston, Eastbury, Grimsthorpe, and Stowe -- Ch. 8. ""A sort of child of my owne"" : autobiography in stone at 'Goose-Pie' House, Greenwich and Chargate -- Conclusion. Subjects; Vanbrugh, John 1664-1726 Criticism and interpretation. Architecture, Domestic England. Seventeenth century Baroque architecture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 386238
- Title
- Sir John Vanbrugh : storyteller in stone / Vaughan Hart
- Author
- Hart, Vaughan (1960-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300119291
- ISBN 13
- 9780300119299
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2008
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