For over 100 years, Country Life magazine has been recording the country houses of the British Isles and Europe. From the start, its weekly articles on the subject were illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by some of the century's pre-eminent architectural photographers. Photography remains the lifeblood of the magazine, and it has built up an unrivalled archive of architectural photographs of some of the finest houses in Western Europe.
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For over 100 years, Country Life magazine has been recording the country houses of the British Isles and Europe. From the start, its weekly articles on the subject were illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by some of the century's pre-eminent architectural photographers. Photography remains the lifeblood of the magazine, and it has built up an unrivalled archive of architectural photographs of some of the finest houses in Western Europe.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Quarto. 192pp. Illustrated from black & white and color photographs by Alex Starkey. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. 25 houses selected from feudal castles to summer palaces, country villas, hunting lodges, and pleasure pavilions.
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VG+/VG+ Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, bw illustrated end pages, 192 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color. 'Great Houses of Europe' brings together a collection of over 200 colour and black-and-white photographs by a master of natural-light photography, 'Country Life' photographer Alex Starkey. The book covers a wide range of houses both geographically and in terms of architectural style.
