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Waddesdon: The Biography of a Rothschild House
£35.00 Buy In 1957, James de Rothschild bequeathed Waddesdon Manor to Britain's National Trust. Since that time, the Manor and its spectacular gardens welcome more and more visitors every year. Now, this lavish book allows readers everywhere the opportunity to enjoy this unique celebration of le style Rothschild. -
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Paradise and Plenty
£29.95 Buy Under the leadership of the renowned head gardener, Sue Dickinson, this garden works on a scale that is now unique producing, year-round, all the fruit, flowers and vegetables for a country house where entertaining still happens on a grand scale and where everything is done to the highest standard. Paradise and Plenty will open a window on what has, until now, been kept intensely private, a world beyond most gardeners' dreams. Many of the techniques used at Eythrop are old and tried, but have fallen out of use almost everywhere else. As the author says, 'this book has to be how as well as wow.' -
The Baroness: The search for Nica, the rebellious Rothschild
£9.99 Buy A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard a piece by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. The music overtook her like a magic spell, and she abandoned her marriage to go and find him. Arriving in New York, Nica was shunned by society but accepted by the musicians. They gave her friendship: she gave them material and emotional support. Hannah Rothschild’s search to solve the mystery of her rebellious great aunt draws on their long friendship and years of meticulous research and interviews. It is part musical odyssey, part dazzling love story. -
Bakst
£35.00 Buy The choice of subject was left to the artist, who completed the seven panels in 1922, delayed by ill health, other work and the First World War. In 1923 it was decided to hang the panels in the dining room, but it is not known whether they were ever installed. They were finally hung in the dining room of James and Dorothy's next house, at 23 St James' Place. They were installed in the Bakst Room at Waddesdon in 1995. -
The House of Rothschild: The World’s Banker 1849-1999
£14.99 Buy The House of Rothschild chronicles the family's rise and fall, and now its rise again, and describes the reasons for its lasting power. 'Part of the secret of long-run success in banking is, of course, not to go bust; the Rothschilds' relative risk aversion is one reason for their financial longevity', writes author Niall Ferguson. -
Printed Books and Bookbindings I and II
£300.00 Buy The first volume provides introductory surveys on the collecting of ancient régime books and Baron Ferdinand’s interests. The following chapters discuss the late 17th and 18th century Parisian bookbinding trade, with particular studies on the style and production of leading bookbinders, Padeloup, Douceur, the Deromes and others. The provenance index records past owners, with brief biographical notes, and there is a select bibliography. The classified index of over 1000 French bookbinder’s tools, reproduced digitally in actual size, provides an authoritative reference file on the best French bookbinding of the period. This catalogue is handsomely printed and illustrated in colour and black-and-white. No earlier private library catalogue has excelled it in learning and none has come near to equalling it in beauty of presentation. It is likely to be the last, as well as the most distinguished, of its kind. By Giles Barber. -
Illuminated Manuscripts
£150.00 Buy Many are among the best products of the later Middle Ages, from the workshop of Jean Pucelle in Paris of the early 14th century, to that of Jean Bourdichon of Tours or of Simon Bening of Bruges, both of the early 16th century; some are valuable for their texts and others for the richness of their illumination. The catalogue descriptions are organised to emphasize the history of the medieval book. Their components, technical elements, texts, and illustrations, are analysed in the sequence in which they were produced, in order to reconstruct the life of each book and, as far as possible, its history. By L.M.J. Delaissé, James Marrow and John de Wit. -
Glass, Stained Glass and Enamels
£150.00 Buy The origins of all these glasses are studied and analysed in the introduction. The stained glass panels are from England, Switzerland and Germany and range in date from c.1400 to the mid-17th century; all were intended for domestic use. The Limoges enamels & dishes, plaques, and a ewer & cover the second great period of production there and include many of the great names, from the work of the Aeneid Master probably of 1525& 30, to one plaque by Léonard II Limosin of the beginning of the 17th century. A study on each artist's work precedes the catalogue entries on the group by or attributed to him. by R.J. Charleston, Michael Archer and Madeleine Marcheix. -
Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century
£200.00 Buy Most prominent among these objects are the series of gold boxes made by leading Paris goldsmiths of the 1760's & 1780's and mounted with miniatures painted by the Van Blarenberghes. This group is one of the largest painted by this family, besides snuffboxes there are also bonbonnières, patch boxes, needlecases and other containers, in gold, sometimes enamelled, in hardstones, or covered in shagreen, and other precious materials. The creation and composition of the boxes in this exceptionally important collection, as well as the context in which they were used, are studied both in the introduction and in the catalogue entries. Authors: Serge Grandjean, Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti, Charles Truman and Anthony Blun. -
Edmund de Waal Exhibition Catalogue
£25.00 Buy Some of these groups of porcelain vessels relate to spectacular pieces of furniture, or echo the formal groupings of objects in 18th century interiors. Others take on ideas of collecting itself, how things are kept together, lost, stolen or dispersed. Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists. He has exhibited widely and his work is held in many major museum collections. His book The Hare with Amber Eyes was published in 2010 and has received several awards. He lives with his family in London.
