Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House

Artist: Robert Smythson 
Author: Mark Girouard 
Publisher: Yale 
Date: 1983 
Condition: A very clean and little-used copy of the 1983 first edition hardback. Complete with dust wrapper, the book is tidy and unmarked inside, the wrapper with very minor chips to the edges.

I well remember using a well-worn copy of this book during my MA studies, and it was an absolute fount of information in my studies of Elizabethan architecture. The 'prodigy houses' designed by Smythson, such as Hardwick, are key elements in the development of a new style of domestic (grand domestic, I grant!) architecture in England in the later c16th and which would then again become influential in the c19th revival of those styles. 

Approachably written, this is nevertheless a standard work on the subject. Well-illustrated and a must for the shelves of anyone interested in the Elizabethan world.