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 fine dustwrapper.
Number 55 of 1000 copies signed by both authors. A copy of the original prospectus is loosely inserted. 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).
Item #123807
Price (AUD):
$250.00
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