ISBN10: 0300119291, ISBN13: 9780300119299, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0300119291, ISBN13: 9780300119299, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

New Haven: Yale University Press, Date: 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Color-photographic dj with green lettering on white spine. 288 pp. with 367 color and bw images. Hart examines architect/playwright John Vanburgh's surviving, destroyed and unrealised buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with Nicholas Hawksmoor. Vanbrugh's buildings were first maligned and then misunderstood, even though two of his most famous works were Castle Howard and Blenheim. It was Vanbrugh's declared intention for those visiting Blenheim to 'read' the Duke of Marlborough's 'story' through the form and iconography of the house, and in consequence, Vanbrugh emerges here as an accomplishd 'storyteller in stone.' Includes 8 chapters with 2 appendices. Extensively illustrated, often with a contemporary drawing and a current photo. 2008. Yale University Press ISBN 0300119291 US

New Haven : Yale University Press, Date: 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. 2008. New Haven : Yale University Press ISBN 0300119291 9780300119299 [IE]