UsedGood. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing Some corner dings. Worn bind. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. This is a hardcover copy Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa! ISBN 0710006225 9780710006226 [US]

London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, Date: 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for insignificant traces of wear to ectremities, in jacket with the same.. 1981. Routledge Kegan & Paul ISBN 0710006225 9780710006226 [CA]

London: Routledge Kegan & Paul, Date: 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 10" x 7 1/2", xvi, 279 pages, 74 black and white illustrations, 70 plans. The country houses built between 1835 and 1914 range from architectural masterpieces to the monstrously ugly. Their wealthy patrons, who were as likely to be self-made manufacturers as landed gentry, used their money to build for themselves a perfect setting for a now extinct way of life, based on an army of domestic servants. The Gentleman's Country House and its Plan describes how Victorian and Edwardian country houses were planned and lived in, using a fascinating range of both architectural and literary sources. It makes clear how each house was designed to accommodate the various hierarchies within the household, and the rigid social conventions of the time. Though family and guests were helplessly dependent on the servants, they insisted that the servants should live entirely segregated and virtually invisible lives. Children were relegated to the nurseries, smokers to the smoking room, bachelors to the bachelor wing. Architects also had to provide for modern comfort, which included not only plentiful WCs but also central heating and unsmoky chimneys. So plans had to be drawn up with great skill to ensure that everything happened in the right place at the right time. As this book shows, a study of the plans can bring to life a lost social world. Illustrated ...

London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, Date: 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Philip A. Stevens. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 279 pp., illustrations ; 26 cm. Subjects; Geschichte 1835-1914. Country homes England. Architecture and society. Victorian. Housing. 1981. London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul ISBN 0710006225 9780710006226 [IE]

London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, Date: 1981. 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; 279 pp.: illustrations ; 26 cm. Subjects; Geschichte 1835-1914. Country homes England. Architecture and society. Victorian England. 1981. London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul ISBN 0710006225 9780710006226 [IE]

Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, Date: 1981-02-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 2.9977 cent in x 24.7812 cent in x 19.3853 cent in. 1981. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd ISBN 0710006225 9780710006226 [GB]