Grant, Ian — Great Interiors

New York, E. P. Dutton, 1967. First. Hardcover. Cherry red cloth/boards; gold spine lettering; decorative end papers; color-illus. dj with black lettering. 288 pp. with 40 color and 200 bw illus. throughout. A lavish book showing many grand interiors from 1650 to the 1960s from mansions and other stately buildings around the world. With an introduction by Cecil Beaton. Divided into 7 sections: Early Classical, Baroque and Rococo, Romantic Revival, High Victorian, Fin-de-Siecle, and Modern; each section by a different expert author. Includes photos, illustrations, architects' drawings and engravings of interiors. Most photography by Edwin Smith. Some of the interiors include Empress Josephine's bedroom at Malmaison in Paris, the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg, Virginia, Haga Slot in Stockholm, and the library of the Biltmore Mantion in North Carolina. VG (clean and tight with no marks and only minor tanning to very edges of some pages.)/VG with only very slight bumps to top edge of dj in two spots.