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Holkham: The Social, Architectural and Landscape History of a Great English Country House
Christine Hiskey
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Description for Holkham: The Social, Architectural and Landscape History of a Great English Country House
Hardback. First published history of this famous grade 1 listed Norfolk hall and estate. Fully illustrated with reproductions of estate maps and archive photographs and pictures of family and staff. An important addition to the study of life in the English country house. Num Pages: 480 pages, 100 colour, 40 archive black & white and maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAN; AMKH; AMV; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 245 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1830.
Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled park bordered by the marshes and dunes of the North Norfolk coast. Built, owned and occupied by the Coke family since 1612, it is at the centre of a major agricultural estate; a treasure house whose paintings, classical sculpture, books, manuscripts and furniture are of international importance.Using the extensive documents kept by generations of staff and family, recording the daily life of the Hall and estate, Christine Hiskey has traced Holkham's history through four hundred years, adding considerably to existing knowledge.Surviving vicissitudes and accumulating property, the ... Read more
Holkham Hall is a masterpiece of eighteenth-century Palladian architecture set in a large walled park bordered by the marshes and dunes of the North Norfolk coast. Built, owned and occupied by the Coke family since 1612, it is at the centre of a major agricultural estate; a treasure house whose paintings, classical sculpture, books, manuscripts and furniture are of international importance.Using the extensive documents kept by generations of staff and family, recording the daily life of the Hall and estate, Christine Hiskey has traced Holkham's history through four hundred years, adding considerably to existing knowledge.Surviving vicissitudes and accumulating property, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Unicorn Publishing Group
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1829g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910065983
SKU
V9781910065983
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99-15
About Christine Hiskey
Christine Hiskey's interest in local history was partly inspired by childhood holidays at Burnham Overy Staithe near Holkham. After reading Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, she qualified as an archivist at Liverpool University before working for four years in the Durham County Records Office. In 1975 Christine Hiskey moved to Norfolk with her husband, and from 1977 began ... Read more
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