Baron Halifax' Residence This New Design of my Invention is most humbly Inscribed to the Rt. Honble. the Earl of Halifax..

by Colen Campbell

$400 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

From Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect. Vitruvius Britannicus is one of the great eighteenth-century English architectural works. It illustrates, in a way, the social revolution that occured in the first half of the 18th century under the governance of Robert Walpole. Noble country estates as grand as any in continental Europe appeared throughout the land. These are buildings of Classical formality and grandeur, implying familial and imperial

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