The British country house in the eighteenth century
This work explores the British country house between 1700-1830 and looks at the lives of the noblemen and the servants who inhabited them. Reference is made to the whole of the British Isles and there is a discussion of their political significance
Print Book, English, 2000
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, 2000
History
xv, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm.
9780719047244, 9780719047251, 0719047242, 0719047250
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The country house and money; the architecture of the country house; role and rank - family and servants; the landscape; a temple to the arts; furnishing the country house; entertainment.