English Homes - Complete In Nine Volumes by H Avray Tipping - 1921

London: Country Life, 1921. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. A handsome and complete nine volume set of Avray Tipping's masterwork on English country house architecture. All first editions from 1921 onwards bar one, and uniformly bound in publisher's smart blue cloth with quarter blue buckram and gilt tilting to fronts and spines. Gilt to all edges bar one vol. In VG, clean and bright order throughout. All volumes show light shelfwear and fading to spines. Other minor faults noted below. Comprising: Period I Vol I Norman & Plantagenet 1066-1485; Periods I & II Vol II Mediaeval & Early Tudor 1066-1558, 2nd ed (1937), no gilt edging or gilt detailing to front board; Period II Vol I Early Tudor 1485-1558, light bump at base of boards; Period III Vol I Late Tudor & Early Stuart 1558-1649; Period III Vol II Late Tudor & Early Stuart 1558-1649; Period IV Vol I Late Stuart 1649-1714, small scuff to front cloth; Period IV Vol II The Work Of Sir John Vanbrugh And His School 1699-1736, a little light marking to boards and bumping to lower corners; Period V Vol I Early Georgian 1714-1760, heavier wear to lower front corner; Period VI Vol I Late Georgian 1760-1820, heavier wear to edges and a little marking to boards. Typescript index laid in. Exceptionally heavy set, so shipping will be quoted at cost. Happy to deliver personally foc in London or East Anglia. Elephant Folio.