Small Castles and Pavilions of Europe.
Zerbe, Jerome; Connolly, Cyril (Introduction).
Place Published: New York:
Publisher: Walker and Company,
Date Published: 1976.
Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 183 pages with black and white and colored photos. The book is in GOOD PLUS condition with bumped bottom corners; top spine is cocked; faint stains to front and back boards; age darkening to front and back endpapers. The jacket is in VERY GOOD condition with minor chipping/closed tears to edges; foxing on back of jacket. Comes with a BRODART cover. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious subjects. The dust jacket reads: This book is a remarkable record-in his distinguished pictures and words-of the small castles and pavilions he visited-magnificent miniature palaces, which decorate the landscape of the Continent and the British Isles. These petits chateaux were designed by architects of genius, and their rooms were filled with paintings and furniture executed by masters. Their owners had them built as places of relaxation: for conversation, making love, eating, cardplaying, and for watching the hunt. In these pavilions there gathered a society of philosophers, rich merchants, aristocrats, and Royal mistresses. This world-a doomed society-has vanished, but the pavilions remain: extravagant, eccentric, splendid. In the haunting words of Louis XV: "Things as they are will last my time."
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
ISBN: 0802705421
Book Id: 4235
Price: $62.50
