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; short ballpoint pen mark to the bottom edge; ownership details on the front free endpaper; a near-fine copy with the near-fine dustwrapper.
Number 917 of 1000 copies signed in ink by both authors; this copy is further inscribed and signed by Pamela Oborn to the former owners of the book. 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 #144165
Price (AUD):
$200.00