(COUNTRY LIFE)   "COUNTRY HOMES"   A unique set of bound volumes with illustrated articles on English country homes and gardens extracted from the first 17 volumes of "Country Life Illustrated."       (London: George Newnes, 1897 -   1905).          The English weekly periodical "COUNTRY LIFE" is a key resource for the study of the English country house and its garden. Begun in 1897, almost every issue included an illustrated article devoted to an important English estate. John Leyland wrote most of the early articles while the excellent photographs which accompanied them were mostly the work of the noted landscape photographer Charles Latham. Much of this material was used to produce the three volume set published under the title "Gardens Old & New." However, the original articles, as they appeared in the periodical, are longer and more fully illustrated. The volumes offered here have been extracted from the first seventeen volumes of COUNTRY LIFE, published between January 1897 and June 1905, with most of the material unrelated to country houses and gardens removed. Thus, the roughly 14,500 pages that would make up the full run of the magazine for this period are conveniently reduced to approximately 3500 pages. Nearly 400 houses are described, including many of England's most famous country estates and gardens.   Seven volumes, folio (36 x 24 cm); irregular pagination, between 470 and 520 pp. per volume.            Older cloth; each volume has been protected with a heavy paper wrapper on the spine of which has been neatly hand-lettered the volume number and a list of all the houses and gardens included in that volume in the order of their appearance. The wrapper on volume 1 is torn and a 12cm long piece of the wrapper spine is lacking along with a portion of the house list for that volume; a replacement for this has been printed and inserted in its place. $1,600.00

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