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1902 · Best.-Nr. FURNITUR007482 — Bernard Quaritch London. 1902. First edition. Folio. pp vi 84. 74 photographic plates by Eustace Calland. Original parchment-backed grey-blue cloth lettered in black on the spine. Top edge gilt. Printed on laid paper. An architectural gem Parnham House was built during the reign of Elizabeth I and redesigned by John Nash in the early nineteenth century. It was utterly destroyed in 2017 when the owner Michael Treichl was thought to have deliberately set fire to the place. He committed suicide a couple of months later. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Very good indeed in the rare dustwrapper which is heavily chipped and torn in places. Bernard Quaritch, London. hardcover