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]

ISBN10: 0300119291, ISBN13: 9780300119299, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover First Edition Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven and London, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition free from annotations, inscriptions or creases. Spine remains undamaged. Contents are complete, tight, crisp and clean. Dust jacket with negligible shelfwear. 288 pp. with 367 colour 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. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Additional postage may be requested from international orders.
[Carnforth, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: ...
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ISBN10: 0300119291, ISBN13: 9780300119299, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.
[Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [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 9780300119299 [US]

New Haven Yale University Press 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.

ISBN10: 0300119291, ISBN13: 9780300119299, [publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press] Hardcover First Edition 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. 1 Kg.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: ...
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ISBN10: 0300119291, ISBN13: 9780300119299, [publisher: Yale University Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 3.85
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

Yale University Press 2008 hardcover Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.