London: John Gray Bell 1853

91pp including list of subscribers +12pp catalogue of books published or sold by John Gray Bell. Small 8vo. Frontis shows the front of Wentworth Castle. Tissue guarded plates of the house and grounds throughout text. Green embossed cloth with gilt decorated spine. A little rubbed at head of spine. Hard to find country house guide book to Wentworth Castle and the surrounding landscape, the centre of a recent restoration scheme, and now managed by the National Trust. Also useful for Rockley, which is a detached landscape, overshadowed by huge 18th century pile that is Wentworth Castle [ reworked around an earlier house ], its garden buildings and landscape layout. Dedicated to F W R V Wentworth. This copy has an inscription on the front end paper and paste down Alfred Broadbent, Thurgoland near Barnsley Yorkshire 3rd Septemebr 1853. He was one of the subscibers listed at the end.