IRISH HOUSES AND GARDENS PB

For more than 100 years, Country Life magazine has been publishing definitive articles on the country houses of Great Britain and Ireland illustrated with specially commissioned images as captured by some of the century’s preeminent architectural photographers. Taken predominantly on glass plate negatives, the beauty and detail of these illustrations are without equal. Collected here are 200 of the Country Life archive’s most outstanding photographs of Ireland’s finest houses and gardens. Around mid-century the loss and destruction of many houses across the country quickened, making many of these photographs an important and often unique record of what is now gone. The essential historical background required for an appreciation of these buildings is also provided, making this not only an important survey but also a portfolio of classic photographs of unrivaled beauty and significance.