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| Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle | 
| Author: Anna Chalcraft
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 131854
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 9.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0711226873
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.80942195
EAN: 9780711226876
ASIN: 0711226873
Publication Date: November 25, 2007
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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| Customer Reviews:
Scarcely any photos--most disappointing! February 15, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Wow, what a tremendous disappointment! Big coffee table book, feels hefty, looks like it'll be a treasure trove of Gothic architecture . . . and yet not. The entire book has exactly ONE full-page, full-color photo of the interior of Strawberry Hill. The rest of the book is more like a scholarly work, with small photos of wallpaper fragments, engravings of Walpole and his family and friends, close-ups of some interesting bits and piece of architectural detail, and lots and lots of text. There's nothing wrong with that; but what a false carrot to dangle in front of the architecturally-inclined reader ("Gothic" and "castle" together in one title--be still, my heart!). If ever a book deserved a subtitle, it's this one--and it should have been something along the lines of, "A Scholarly Overview" or something equally dry, to suit the book. What a great opportunity the authors missed in not showing the world more of the WHOLE of Walpole's beautiful castle.
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