A fine clean copy of Apollo ~ Vol. CXLVII ~ No. 434, published in April 1998, and devoted to Houses and Collections of The National Trust. Contents include scholarly articles on "Ralph Allen and Prior Park, Bath : A Kingdom of Stone", by Christopher Woodward ~ "A Pagoda Fountain for Prior Park : Sambrooke Freeman's Unrealised Project", by John Harris ~ "The Mausoleum at Blickling : Bonomi's Pyramid for the Earl of Buckinghamshire", by Roger Bowdler ~ "The 2nd Earl of Egremont and Egremont House : A Private London Palace and it's Pictures", by Christopher Rowell ~ "A Cabinet of Curiosities at Peckover House ~ "Keep Off Dirty Paws"", by David Adshead ~ "Spiridione Roma at The Vyne : Reconstructing the Work of a "Very Idle" Painter", by Cathal Moore and Christine Sitwell ~ "The Ornamental Plasterwork at Lanhydrock, Cornwall : Puritan Images for Changing Times", by John R.L. Thorp ~ "Curzon's Ivory Chairs at Kedleston : A Puzzle of Patronage in Anglo-Indian Furniture", by Amin Jaffer and Deborah Swallow ~ "Royal Arms at Belton", by John Martin Robinson ~ "Ebony at The Argory : "Een Ebbenhout Kabinet met Parlemoer Ingeleydt"", by Simon Jervis, and, "Napoleonic Treasure for Lyme Park : The Best Laid Table in the North of England", by David W. Evans, plus regular monthly features. Soft covers.
