by Geoffrey Beard

London: Bloomsbury, 1981.  Large attractive coffee-table book devoted to British interior decoration, the houses and the craftsmen (plasterers, carvers, etc) who worked on them.. Over 300 pages, illustrated throughout. Houghton Hall, Claydon. Osterly Park, Syon House, Saltram, Heveningham Hall, etc.  Robert Adam, James Gibbs, Giuseppe Artari, Thomas Clayton, William Cleere, Eleanor Coade, Henry Doogood, Grinling Gibbings, Thomas Perritt, Joseph Rose, etc., etc.  A nice copy.