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VG-(DJ and page edges are tanning lightly, otherwise clean. ) Maroon cloth, gilt letters on spine, dark green & color illus. dust jacket, 96 pp., BW & color illus. "Covers closely the architectural merits of Crewe House, a fine example of English eighteenth century domestic city architecture. Significant archival material is reproduced--old photographs, and contemporary accounts on the redecoration of the interior. The first Marquess of Crewe, successively Colonial Secretary and Secretary for India between 1908 and 1915, and later the Liberals' most distinguished elder statesman, who gave the house its name, presided there till its sale in 1936. The author, Lord Crewe's grandson, provides an unusual slant on English political life through the occupants....The work turns to the conversion of Crewe House from a home to the offices of Thomas Tilling Ltd. and finally to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia." (dj).