Domestic Colonial Architecture of Tidewater Virginia. With an introduction by Fiske Kimball
Chapel Hill, (NC): UNC Press, (c1947). Second edition (first published in 1932). Large 4to. xvii, 191 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, floor plans, elevations. Bacon's Castle, Ampthill, Stratford, Westover, and Carter's Grove are among the plantation houses considered. Ownership signature of Mangum Weeks, son of North Carolina bibliographer Stephen Weeks and a leader in the national preservation movement of the 1920s and 1930s, with his pencil markings and annotations in the text. Very good. Gilt-stamped green cloth (dull), worn publisher's slipcase with printed paper labels (several edges cracked or broken, other wear at extremities). (#4494). Item #60643
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