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Paperback / softback. New.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Cowdray: the history of a great English House ... With illustrations, etc..

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London : Bickers, 1884. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of J. A. Hawkshaw. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth over bevelled boards. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed and bumped as with age. Staining to the front panel. Internally, bright and clean. Physical description; 178 pp., [9]leaves of plates : ill, plan ; 27 cm. Subjects; Cowdray. Historic buildings England Cowdray (Sussex).

London: Bickers & Son, 1884. First edition. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 8.5". Anthony Salvin; B. Austin; Grimm. A first edition copy of this history of Cowdray House, which was one of England's great Tudor houses. The first edition of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with a gilt crest to the front board. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve further plates. Collated, complete. Cowdray House in West Sussex was once one of England's great Tudor houses, architecturally comparable to many of that era's great palaces and country houses. It is now a ruin, due to a fire in 1793. Julia Anne Elizabeth Roundell (née Tollemache, daughter of Wilbraham Tollemache of Dorfold Hall, Cheshire), wrote this illustrated history of this intriguing house, including the so-called 'curse of Cowdray'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, though with marks to the boards and shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd… Read More