Art Treasures in the British Isles: Monuments, Masterpieces, Commissions, and Collections

New York and Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. Cloth, 176 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (part colour); 29 cm. Maps on lining papers. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, light dust spotting/edges. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Philip Hendy; Early farmers, Celts and Romans prehistory to c. AD 400, by Desmond Collins & Martin Henig; Anglo-Saxon monks and Norman builders, c. 432-1174, by Ian Richards; Church and court in the Gothic Age, 1174-1485, by Ian Richards; The growth of secular patronage 1485-1603; The Stuart court, the city and the country house, 1603-1712, by Janet Holt; Classical ideals and landscape painting, 1712-1837, by John Sunderland; The national collections and the Gothic revival, 1837-1910, by John Doig; Art and society in the twentieth century, by 1910 to the present day, by Elizabeth Bridgeman; Museums and monuments.. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 4to.