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Hardcover, large quarto bound in black cloth and publisher’s pictorial dust-jacket. 314 pages. Bibliographic References, Index. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photographs. First edition. A survey of five stately homes: Charlecote Park, Goodrich Court, Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, Sir Walter Scott’s home, Abbotsford, and Fonthill Abbey, the grandest and most famous Gothic Revival house of its day, with an eye towards the collecting taste, socio-economic conditions geo-political circumstances which came together to make the Romantic aesthetic palpable. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Fine in a very good dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage.