London: Aurum Press 1997

x + 192pp with 100s of lovely b/w photographs throughout. Very good indeed. Large 4to, cloth. In vg. d/w, and protective archival plastic cover. A selection of twenty Scottish houses, shown in their 'last golden age'. Gow's informative text is illustrated with photographs from Country Life's unparalleled collection of glass plate negatives. Many of the houses shown have since been destroyed or radically altered.