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Article: Mercantile magnificence: this account of Regency houses is not only beautiful: it is an outstanding historical analysis.(The Regency Country House from the Archives of Country Life)(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2006
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The Regency Country House from the Archives of Country Life
JOHN MARTIN ROBINSON
Aurum Press, 40 [pounds sterling]
ISBN 1 84513 0537
The introduction to this dazzlingly beautiful book, which has new facts and apercus on every page, is a brilliant piece of social and historical, as well as architectural, writing. John Martin Robinson, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary, puts to good use his knowledge of family history, explaining that Regency families were rich but not notably noble, with a male line descendant from a medieval peerage in only a very few cases. Even the families of Dartmouth, Ducie, Pomfret, Tankerville, Dormer, Romney, ...