Trumpet at a Distant Gate

'The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House.' Attractive coffee-table book on the lodges & gatehouses of English country houses. "This pioneering study offers the reader a much needed introduction to an extraordinary art form. Far from reflecting their humble function, lodges were the earliest small houses to be architect designed and appeared in a variety of guises from classical temple to Gothic summerhouse, Palladian pavilion to medieval castle in miniature." Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. Small closed tear to jacket. Mowl, Tim ; Earnshaw, Brian David R. Godine, 1985 hardcover, very good condition, very good dust jacket