Burghley House Rizzoli Book
A remarkable tour through Burghley House
Step into the lavish interiors, extraordinary architecture and parklands, and unrivalled collections of the grandest surviving sixteenth-century estate in Britain through the pages of Rizzoli's Burghley House book.
With sumptuous photography made specially for the book and imagery drawn from Burghley’s private archives, this book is a privileged tour of Burghley House and its remarkable history.
"I am so excited to share the arrival of the magnificent Burghley book. It has been a labour of love for the past 18 months - but it is so rewarding to finally see our dreams turned into reality.
Burghley has inspired wonder for nearly five hundred years - and its walls have borne silent witness to the story of our nation, as well as the multitude of lives that have lived within them. For this book, we decided to tell the story of this great house, following a chronological history of the more colourful and extravagant members of the family; those who have collected innumerable magnificent objects and been instrumental not only in the evolution of the architecture of the house but also the surrounding gardens and Parkland.
It has been well over thirty years since any book has been published about Burghley - and recent research has thrown up so many discoveries and fascinating stories to tell. So to realise this monumental task, we were extremely fortunate to enlist the skills of the great architectural historian and author John Martin Robinson, working closely alongside the inspired eye of the photographer Ashley Hicks, whose unerring ability to capture extraordinary vignettes and the atmosphere of this wonderful place has stunned us all.
As with any endeavour of this scale, its creation involves the contributions of so many people - working alongside our brilliant publishers Rizzoli - and I would like to thank each and every one of them. Most importantly, I feel sure that you will be visually transported into the magic of Burghley and its unique historic status as arguably England’s greatest Elizabethan treasure house."
Miranda Rock | Executive Chair, Burghley House Preservation Trust
From Burghley’s inception as Cecil’s “prodigy house” to its remarkable renovation and the development of its parklands by Capability Brown in the eighteenth century, to the estate’s preservation efforts today, this is a rare and detailed look inside one of the gems in the British landscape.
Including 552 pages plus 6 large-scale plans, 32 plans and maps,7 reconstruction drawings, 361 colour and black-and-white illustrations. Abbreviations, Primary Sources, Bibliography and Index.