The House. A Portrait of Chatsworth.
by DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan. 1982 1st edition. Size 6.75 x 9.5 inches. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to top edge. Author’s signature on first blank page. Neat ink inscription to early blank page, dated 1983, with pencil notes. Else a very clean and tight copy. 232pp. With b/w and colour photographs and plans. The history of Chatsworth House and its varied fortunes over the years with a personal tour by the Duchess of the house as it is now.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89947
- Title
- The House. A Portrait of Chatsworth.
- Author
- DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan. 1982 1st edition
- Keywords
- Architecture DUCHESS, DEVONSHIRE, House, Portrait, Chatsworth, history, personal tour, photographs Architecture History Social History first edition dustwrapper, signed copy,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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