Plas Mawr, Conway, N. Wales BAKER Arthur and BAKER Sir Herbert 1862-1946 Publisher: A & H Baker Publish Year: 1888 Publish Place: Farmer & Sons, London Illustrator: BAKER Arthur Category: Miscellaneous, Foreign Travel, Antiquarian Book, History, Reference Book No: 005238 Status: For Sale Book Condition: Very Good Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall Jacket Condition: Unknown Binding: Hardcover Book Type: Unknown Edition: Limited Edition Inscription: Unknown £250 Add to Basket Ask a question Refer to a friend Additional information An edition limited to 200 copies. In its red cloth covers with bevelled edges, gilt coat of arms, a little bumped and worn at edges and corners, a few marks. Relaid spine, retaining most of the old, titles in gilt. Internally, yellow endpapers, ink signature to verso of fep (JP St Aubyn, FRIBA Esq, Lambs Building, Temple, London, dated 1889 - listed as a subscriber), [4], 5-62 pp, [2], 23 leaves of plates, with the edition statement loose as usual, hinges strengthened, minimal browning to edges, printed by Farmer & Sons, Steam Printers, 295 Edgware Rd, London. Contains, also a list of subscribers, Ancestry & Pedigree of Robert Wynnes, Dorothy Gryffith, Lord Mostyn etc. Always a very difficult book to find! Arthur and Herbert Baker, Honorary Architects to the Royal Cambrian Academy of Arts. Plas Mawr was built between 1576 and 1585 for the Welsh merchant Robert Wynn. The striking Elizabethan townhouse is regarded as one of the finest surviving examples of its type. Baker, Sir Herbert, architect and author. See ODNB.
