Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-year Lease By Cecil Beaton

Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen-year Lease - Cecil Beaton - 1999 Paperback\nGood solid copy with general wear. Binding sound, small mark at flyleaf else  pages appear unmarked; some blemishing at block ends.  \nDespatched from UK within three working days.\n-- We package orders as we would like to receive them --\n\n---\nA reader comments:'A delightful short read describing Beaton's fifteen year lease of Ashcombe, a dilapidated and remote small country house in a fold of Wiltshire downland at the tip of Cranborne Chase. CB repaired and revitalised the house and gardens, and fortunately so as the house might otherwise have been demolished by its owner. Reading about the hectic weekends, dressing-up parties and other stagy revelries, one wonders what the locals made of these flighty butterflies who appeared and disappeared. The photographs show groups of England's literati and social leaders at Ashcombe. One or two glaring typos should have been picked up by Hugo Vicker'