PRE-ORDER: The Bible of British Taste: Issue no. 5

PUBLICATION DATE: THURSDAY 15TH OCTOBER

In this bumper issue no. 5 of the BoBT magazine we bring you Renishaw Hall, the extraordinary seat of generations of the SITWELL family, made yet more exquisite by the siblings, Edith, Osbert and Sitwell - aesthetes, stylists and patrons of CECIL BEATON, REX WHISTLER, John Piper and Serge Diaghilev, photographed exclusively for the magazine by LUKE EDWARD HALL.

An ancient house in remote watery Fen-lands, built on the foundations of a medieval priory, styled with Colefax's late C20th country house chintz and described by NICKY HASLAM - and a consummately perfect C17th house in Kent, built when its sea-side streets were a riot of sailors, inns, and brothels, a ‘fence  now against the worldly scramble.’

Picture-postcards from the island home of Charle McCormick and Ben Pentreath, an ORCADIAN ODYSSEY.

DEREK JARMAN's Prospect Cottage and his magical world-mythology -  described and photographed by his friend, protege and former assistant Simon Costin, curator of the museum of witchcraft and magic

 Alec Cobbe’s account of saving his extraordinary Irish country house CABINET OF CURIOSITIES from sale and destruction in the 1950s, witches versus pagans  - what's the difference? Cornish antiquarian Rupert White elucidates.

VALERIE FINNIS the gardener’s gardener , a memorial, photographed at home by her friend Howard Sooley.

Fashion from JOHN ALEXANDER SKELTON shot in SPITALFIELDS

HILLES HOUSE, the seat of fashion icon SELINA BLOW, her brother Detmar Blow and the late Isabella Blow. 

Diana Moores - FARMER of the year - at Upper Onny in the Welsh borderlands.

THE LAND GARDENERS dig for victory.

 Some OBSCURE objects of desire… and ... FOXCASTLE, a fairy tale by Sylvia Townsend Warner. 

 140 glorious colour pages!  

Founder-editor  R A Guilding, contributing editor Luke Edward Hall, art director Jack Henshall, contributing photographers Howard Sooley, Luke Edward Hall, Ben Pentreath, Charlie McCormick, William Waterworth, Joe Skilton  and  Simon Costin.