Product Description: This highly illustrated book charts the evolution of Dublin into the city it is today.

Product Description: A National Trust guidebook covering history, horticulture, garden history, history of art, architecture, social history, natural environment and conservation.

The author of Life in the English Country House crosses the Channel for a look at French pastoral living, using letters, diaries, inventories, and contemporary etiquette to recreate life in the 'great houses' of the French countryside. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: By looking at England's cathedral towns, Regency spas and industrial cities, and at their market squares, docks, council chambers and assembly rooms, the author traces the development of English towns through the centuries.

Product Description: This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classes—their public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, Mark Girouard tells how he became intrigued by architecture as a small boy. Combining anecdote and information about both buildings and their inhabitants, he writes of the places he has visited in town and country. Girouard provides an interpretation of the English origins of rococo art, he describes the formation of an English seaside resort, recreates the Georgian architecture and society of Jane Austen's world and traces changing attitudes towards landscape in architecture from 18th-century Britain to 20th-century America...read more

Product Description: Book by Maroon, Fred, Girouard, Mark

This social and aesthetic history of the world's major cities from antiquity to the present focuses on crucial periods of the cities' past and examines their architecture in light of the men and women who used it

A near fine copy in a VG+ condition DJ whose only flaw is being price clipped.

A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible

Describes the career of the seventeenth-century British architect, looks at his designs for rural mansions and castles, and discusses his contributions to their interior decoration

Shows and describes the history of British palaces, castles, manors, and mansions in Britain, and includes profiles of the people associated with each home

Product Description: Victorian Pubs Hardcover - Illustrated, July, 1984 by Mark Girouard (Author)

Describes the Queen Anne movement, in architecture, furnishings, gardens, and picture books, and examines schools, businesses, and homes constructed in this style

Recounts the circumstances surrounding the planning and design of a building for London's Natural History Museum, and examines how political and architectural difficulties were overcome