Scottish Country Houses, 1600-1914 / / Ian Gow, Alistair Rowan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gow, Ian,; Rowan, Alistair,
• MitwirkendeR: Brogden, William A.,; Brown, Iain Gordon,; Colvin, Howard,; Cosh, Mary,; Crook, J. Mordaunt,; Dunbar, John G.,; Emerson, Richard,; Gifford, John,; Gow, Ian,; Harris, John,; Holloway, James,; Howard, Deborah,; Hume, John R.,; Learmont, David,; Macaulay, James,; Mackechnie, Aonghus,; Marshall, Rosalind K.,; McKean, Charles,; Riches, Anne,; Rock, Joe,; Rowan, Alistair,; Sanderson, Margaret H. B.,; Simpson, James,; Slade, Harry Gordon,; Walker, David M.,; Walker, Frank Arneil,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; List of Abbreviations --; 1 A Plethora of Palaces --; 2 Design Approaches in Early Post-Reformation Scots Houses --; 3 'Scarce a Finer Seat in Scotland' --; 4 Two Late Seventeenth-Century Designs for Kinnaird Castle --; 5 Sir William Bruce's Design for Hopetoun House and Its Forerunners --; 6 Organs, Orrerys and Others --; 7 An Account of the Reconstruction of William Adam's Design for Gladney House, with some Observations on Other Early Projects --; 8 The Restoration of the House of Dun --; 9 Views in Scottish Houses, 1630-I770 --; 10 John Elphinstone and the Castle of Glamis --; 11 A Roger Morris-John Adam Episode in Astylar Palladianism --; 12 A Bibliophile's Bagnio --; 13 Robert Adam at Walkinshaw --; 14 Robert Adam and John Clerk of Eldin --; 15 David (or John?) Henderson's Designs for Caprington Castle --; 16 'This Disagreeable Business' --; 17 'The New Square Style' --; 18 J. P. Neale and the Views of Scotland --; 19 John Smith and Craigievar Castle --; 20 A Neo-Baronial Monymusk Not Built by William Burn --; 21 The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland and Dunrobin Castle --; 22 Relugas and the Dick Lauder Family --; 23 Introducing Alexander Roos --; 24 The Scottish Houses of William Leiper --; 25 The Country House, Larger Villas and Related Hotel Designs of Sir John James Burnet --; 26 The Architect's House and the Search for a 'National Style' --; Appendix --; Acknowledgements --; Photographic Credits --; Index of Designers and Buildings
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474468602; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474468602
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ian Gow, Alistair Rowan.

This new illustrated paperback edition examines the Scottish country house in all its guises - from great classical houses like Hopetoun, to familiar castles such as Glamis and Craigievar - as well as giving insights into the architects who designed them, including William and Robert Adam, Sir John James Burnet and Sir William Bruce.