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Synopsis

A history of country house visiting. new edition.

Item Description

4to. 10 x 9 inches. 224 pp. Bound in original dark blue cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A very good copy. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, including facsimiles and half title and double title pages. Decorated by Trust device on title page. Text first published by Blackwell, 1989. Sumptuously Illustrated history of country house visiting from the polite informal tourists of earlier times to the larger numbers made possible by the development of the railway and introduction of bank holidays, leading up to the mass visiting numbers of the recent era. By social historian, Adrian Tinniswood (b.1954).