60 plates, three hand-coloured. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on cover. Rubbed spine ends. Corners rubbed with front corners worn through. Rear board sun faded. Free endpapers tanned. Previous owner's stamp on front free end paper. Mild foxing throughout, especially on prelims. 4to. A collection of architectural and interior design, drawings and illustrations, some in colour, of Elizabethan architectural styles, including ceilings, the staircase at Hatfield House, and the painted frieze at Gilling Castle in Yorkshire and similar.
Architecture, elizabeth I, interior design, fabrics, furniture, buildings, gilling castle