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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st. Edn. Folio format. (29cm. tall x 19cm.). pp. xx, 198. A superb work based on presentations given at a conference organised by The Strathclyde Group of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland under the same title. The structures involved are:- Midhope Castle, West Lothian; Muckrach Castle, Speyside; Tilquhillie Castle, Aberdeenshire; Aiket castle, Ayrshire; Alloa Tower, Clackmannanshire; Fawside Castle, East Lothian; Mains Castle, Lanarkshire; Rusco Tower, Galloway; Tillycairn, Aberdeenshire; Hatton Castle, Angus; and Forter Castle, Perthshire. There are numerous illustrations in black & white from photographs and architect's drawings. A series of personal accounts of the perils and pleasures of architectural restoration. Professor David Walker provides a review of The Adaptation and Restoration of Tower Houses. This is more than a vade-mecum to would-be restorers. If not of Biblical Stature it is certainly a praiseworthy sermon. Robert Clow, with his experience of Aiket Castle, is an exemplary editor. A fine copy in the original colour-printed pictorial card covers. …