Ancient English Houses 1240-1612

London: Chatto & Windus, 1988. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. 10" wide by 10" tall. A clean, tight copy with sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. The Dust Jacket is bright and shiny, with just a little rubbing. No chips. No tears. No creases. NOT price clipped (£25.00). No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Includes profiles of a wide variety of old styles from all over England: courtyard houses, majestic castles, timber framed manors, gatehouses, etc. Illustrated with full-color photographs throughout, of both exteriors and interiors, with details of plasterwork, staircases, stone carving, ceilings and paneling, topiary gardens, etc. Glossary. Bound in the original black boards, lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Here is a richly illustrated chronicle of some of England's most beautiful houses, built between 1240 and the early seventeenth century. Hidden in spectacular countryside, often at the end of long, narrow driveways, most are privately owned. Some are lived in by the families who built them hundreds of years ago. Before Christopher Simon Sykes' work for this book, few of them had ever been written about or photographed. A medieval fortified manor, a timber-framed hall on a moated island, a seventeenth-century summer house nestling in a vast, ancient lime tree; winding turret stairs, mullioned windows, priest holes, Great Halls with hammer beam roofs, superb plasterwork, stonework and panelling -- these are some of the many treasures which Christopher Simon Sykes has discovered and photographed for this delightful book." . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 239pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.