This book is in very good condition. Aside from dust jacket being slightly wrinkled the book shows very little signs of wear. The pages are clean and bright and the binding is sound. Photography by Ashley Hicks Sumptuous photographs by designer Ashley Hicks (who recently photographed the interiors of Buckingham Palace) capture the smouldering spirit of the place: from the state rooms, which house possibly the finest collection of royal Stuart furniture in the world, to the private apartments and gardens, to the behind-the-scenes labyrinth of cellars and attics. Knole provides a window onto English history. The characters who people the pages of the book-the grave Elizabethan statesman, the good-for-nothing gadabout at the seedy Court of King James I, the dashing Cavalier, the Restoration rake, the 3rd Duke, that magnificent and melancholy representative of the ancient regime, the whiskery and dark-hearted Mortimer who caused three nights of rioting in 1884 by closing the park to visi