Waddesdon Manor: Architecture and Panelling

London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, 1996. Hardcover. VG/VG (small water stain on upper block near spine and on upper dust jacket, library label inside front cover. Pages are otherwise very clean. Light scuffing to dust jacket). Navy boards with gilt stamped design on front cover, brown title block on spine with gilt lettering, burgundy and color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, 704 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color. James A. de Rothschild bequest at Waddesdon Manor (Series). "This book contains a scholarly account of the origins of the house, and a catalogue of the panelling carved in the eighteenth century in France for great houses in Paris, and now assembled at Waddesdon... This volume, the 11th in the Waddesdon series, opens with an account of the Destailleur family, parisian architects of the 18th and 19th centuries, whose designs are now to be found in the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin and in the Archives Nationales in France." -dust jacket excerpts. Includes bibliographical references and index.