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English Homes: 9 volumes complete.

      London; Country Life, 1921-1936. Nine volumes, folio (approx 385x270mm or 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches). Newly bound in red half morocco gilt, spines in six compartments with gilt ruled raised bands, lettered direct and numbered 1-9 rather than using the numbering system employed by the author, the compartments with gilt floral centres, leather sides and corners on boards decorated with double gilt fillet, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers with original upper board titles (gilt lettering on blue cloth), mounted on front pastedowns. The nine volumes are as follows: Period I - vol I: Norman and Plantagenet,1066-1485, 1st edition, 1921, frontispiece, some 403 text illustrations of interiors, external views and measured drawings and plans, ppxxxix, 338, advert leaf. An ex-library copy with ink-stamp on verso of title-page and small blind-stamp on title-page. Period II - vol I: Early Tudor, 1485-1558, 1st edition,1924: frontispiece, some 475 illustrations, lx, 396pp. Period I and II - vol II: Mediaeval and Early Tudor,1066-1558, 1st edition, 1936: frontispiece, some 556 illustrations, xlviii, 364pp. Period III - vol I: Late Tudor and Early Stuart, 1558-1649, 2nd edition,1929: frontispiece, some 475 illustrations, pp lvi, 378, advert leaf. Period III - voI II: Late Tudor and Early Stuart, 1558-1649: 1st edition, 1927: frontispiece, some 537 illustrations, xxii, 423pp. Period IV - vol I: Late Stuart, 1649-1714, 2nd impression, 1929: frontispiece, some 546 illustrations, ppxl, 430, advert leaf. Period IV - vol II. The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh and his School, 1699-1736, 1st edition 1928 (written with Christopher Hussey): frontispiece, some 542 illustrations, lxiv, 333pp. Period V - vol I. Early Georgian, 1714-1760, 1st edition, 1921: frontispiece, some 448 illustrations, ppxliii, 357, advert leaf. Period VI - vol I: Late Georgian, 1760-1820, 1st edition, 1926: frontispiece, some 659 illustrations, xl, 402pp. Save for two library marks in volume 1 the books are very clean, and now in a handsome binding. An unrivalled survey of the grandest examples of the English Country House.