Earls of Creation. LEES-MILNE (James).

Earls of Creation. Five Great Patrons of Eighteenth-Century Art.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-four plates on 28 pp.

First edition. 8vo. [255 x 160 x 30 mm]. 285 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt on a red cloth label, in original unclipped dust jacket. (Light bumping to extremities).

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962

Text block clean, a near fine copy.

A biographical study of five eighteenth-century aristocrats (Bathurst, Pembroke, Burlington, Oxford and Leicester), and their tastes and manners which produced some of England's finest architecture.

Stock no. ebc9091