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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). A very scarce copy of the minutes of the first meeting organising the celebrations intended to commemorate four hundred years since Longleat House was completed. A very scarce copy of the 'minutes of the first meeting concerned with the celebration, together with background material'.Completed in 1580, Longleat House is leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, and is the seat of the Marquesses of Bath. The year 1980 marked four-hundred years since its completion, and preparations for the celebration started two years earlier.This meeting sets out the list of individuals who will be involved in arranging these celebrations, with two additional names handwritten to the tail of the list, and discusses aspects of the history of the house and estate. The use of the gardens, the choice of logo and music, potential pageants, and the scale of the celebrations ate discussed.Also present is a Longleat House card reading 'with the compliments of the Public Relations Office'. In stapled paper wraps. Externally, excellent, but with a horizontal fold to the centre of the leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Handwritten names to list of people present. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.