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Author:

Aslet, Clive, 1955-

Title:

The Edwardian country house : a social and architectural history / Clive Aslet.

Edition:

1st Frances Lincoln ed.

Publisher:

Frances Lincoln Limited,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

286 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 32 cm

Subject:

Master and servant--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Social classes--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Home economics--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Country homes--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Interior decoration--Great Britain--History--20th century.
Decoration and ornament--Edwardian style.
Manors--England.
Architecture, Domestic--England.
Architecture, Edwardian--England.
Architecture--England--History--20th century.
Great Britain--History--Edward VII, 1901-1910.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture, Edwardian.
Country homes.
Decoration and ornament--Edwardian style.
Home economics.
Interior decoration.
Manors.
Master and servant.
Social classes.
England.
Great Britain.
1900 - 1999
History.

Other Authors:

Aslet, Clive, 1955- Last country houses.

Notes:

"First published as The last country houses in 1982"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-278) and index.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

071123339X
9780711233393

OCLC:

(OCoLC)816557086

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)