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OSWALD, ARTHUR.:
Country Houses Of Dorset.
With 200 illustrations from photographs and a map.
Second, revised and enlarged, edition.

Country Life. 1959 2nd edition
7.5 x 10.0 inches.
In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and gilt and red device to front. In very good condition
Mild foxing to edges.
Else a clean and tight copy.
184 pp.
With b/w photo plates, map, plans.
Invaluable for the photo record of the houses providing a time shot of these lovely houses.
A large portion of this book is devoted to "these mullioned and gabled buildings of mediaeval, Tudor, and early Stuart days".
Some of the great houses included are Melbury, Sherborne Castle, St. Giles’s, Kingston Lacy, and Crichel.
More than 70 houses are described and illustrated.
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