Twenty-Five Great Houses of France
By Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, M.A., F.S.A. With an Introductory Chapter Outlining the Development of French Domestic Architecture
By W.H. WARD, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.
Illustrations by Frederick H. Evans.
In this important work Sir Theodore Andrea Cook, author of “Old Touraine,” “Old Provence,” “Rouen,” etc., perhaps the most sympathetic and skilful English writer on French history and the romantic associations which linger around the Chateaux of France, presents a pageant of the great figures who surrounded the throne of such kings as François Premier and Louis Quatorze. Louis of Orleans at Perrefonds, the Duke of Guise at Blois, Fouquet at Vaux le Vicomte, and Condé at Chantilly—these are typical of the story that the author unfolds, with a grasp so sure that the men and women live again, while their great houses are depicted with a wealth of illustration never before achieved or attempted.
Small Country Houses
Their Repair and Enlargement
Forty Examples Chosen from Five Centuries
By Lawrence Weaver
The growing tendency to rescue old buildings from neglect and the important problems which are raised by such work prompted the issue of this book. Detailed descriptions reveal how houses of bygone days have been re-equipped as modern needs demand, without destroying the witness they bear to the old traditions of building. Incidentally, the author has shown in how many cases the records of modest little houses have been preserved, and how intimately their local story is woven into the larger fabric of national history. The book is an invaluable guide to all who are desirous of repairing an old house, and who wish to achieve it in the right spirit.
The “Country Life” Library of Architectural Monographs