For 700 years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland: landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents, before disappearing in the 20th century. Making use of letters, diaries, memoirs, estate documents, inventories, travellers' tales and family reminiscences, Peter Somerville-Large examines the lifestyle of the so-called "rural sovereigns", describing the elegance, discomfort, and danger associated with castle and mansion, and the lives of many famous figures who created or ...
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For 700 years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland: landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents, before disappearing in the 20th century. Making use of letters, diaries, memoirs, estate documents, inventories, travellers' tales and family reminiscences, Peter Somerville-Large examines the lifestyle of the so-called "rural sovereigns", describing the elegance, discomfort, and danger associated with castle and mansion, and the lives of many famous figures who created or inhabited the great houses.
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Second impression (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), xv, 384pp. 24pp colour plates, 54 text illustrations. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (some minor creasing, price-clipped). ISBN 1856192377.
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Very Good. 1995. hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear, remains fine. First edition copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. 372 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. Cloth bent at head and tail of spine. Upper corner of rear board bumped. Signed by author on title page. DJ has minor edge wear.
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Very good. 1996 Printing, 372 numbered pages plus index pages, 8 x 10 in size, Hardcover with dustjacket in protected mylar cover (removable). Book and Dustjacket are in Very Good Condition. Book is completely intact with inside pages in Very Good Condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc. )
