SIR JOHN VANBRUGH

Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008, believe 1st.  ISBN 978-0-300-11929-9.  Hard cover, 288 pages including Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, Photo Credits and Index.  Fine; black boards with gold lettering on spine; binding tight with headbands.  Dust jacket near fine with just a touch of edge and cover wear.  Interior clean and unmarked; colour and black & white photos and drawings throughout.  ‘Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was by turns businessman, soldier playwright, herald and architect of some of the most important country houses of his era.  In this handsome and engaging book architectural historian Vaughan Hart draws on these diverse interests to examine afresh Vanbrugh’s surviving, destroyed and unrealized buildings as well as the designs he executed in collaboration with Nichols Hawksmoor.’ (from front flap)