Harewood House

196pp. Illustrated with plate photographs, maps, charts and diagrams. Indexed. Green cloth-covered boards (clean and bright, a tad rounded on corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a couple of spots on rear endpapers. In its original, illustrated and laminated dust jacket (lightly bumped at edges). Harewood House in Yorkshire is one of the most distinguished great country houses of 18th century England. This book traces its history from its origins in the 1750s to the 1970s - its is the first detailed study of the building of this historic house and covers workman and costs as well as the more usual architectural developments, and examines the influences of John Carr and Robert Adams on its design. Home to the Lascelles family for generations, it also traces their care and guardianship of their country seat.