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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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