Great Houses of Scotland

"Another bull's eye!" was John McEwen's response in the "Literary Review" to 'this companion to the well-matched partnership's "Great Houses of England and Wales'", on its original publication in hardback. 'As before', wrote McEwen, 'it is the charm that tells, the humorous and poetic eye for idiosyncrasy which distinguishes both the writing and the photographs... the exteriors invariably taken at first and purest light, the interiors amusingly probed downstairs as well as up.' And in the "Spectator", Patrick James commended Sykes's 'well-trained eye always scanning an unusual view or a forgotten corner' as well as 'Massingberd's wit and his authoritative prose'. Now this acclaimed classic of the country-house genre is published in a revised, concise paperback edition featuring 25 great houses in Scotland, almost all of them open regularly to the public. The personal selection reflects the development of architectural style in Scotland - from old tower houses such as Cawdor...