Item #120006 The Torrens Park Estate. A Social and Architectural History. Ken PREISS, Pamela OBORN.
The Torrens Park Estate. A Social and Architectural History

The Torrens Park Estate. A Social and Architectural History

[Adelaide], The Authors, 1991.

Folio, xvi, 624 pages with 'over 800 photographs, reproductions and detailed drawings'.

Cloth; a fine copy with the lightly sunned dustwrapper.

Number 28 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. Torrens Park Estate is a 'large mansion and its surrounding grounds, set in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges six kilometres south of Adelaide in South Australia. The stately home was built in 1853 for Robert Richard Torrens, and later owned by Walter Watson Hughes and Robert Barr Smith. It is now the centrepiece of Scotch College' (introduction).

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