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Web Edition. Cook that were surely taken in Devon or the Cotswolds or the Berkshires or the south of France. Anywhere but New Jersey, which is supposed to be, in the words of the introduction, "the butt of comedians' jokes, the scorn of restaurant critics, the symbolic home of organized crime, and the nightmare of drivers traversing its interstate highways to get somewhere better!

Open it and you, who may have smiled at the world-class vulgarity of Tony Soprano's dream house on a hill, will find truly world-class mansions and gardens on hills, riverside and seaside, or right here in Princeton.

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There are so-called coffee table books and home and garden books and then there are books like this one where the images are more than merely decorative or informative. In Peter Cook's photographs, especially the full page pictures that open chapters on each of the 23 homes and gardens, the colors are so deep and the detail so rich you seem to feel the light and air of the moment they were photographed.

The patterned-brick facade of an early 18th-century house in Salem County is shot in vivid contrast to a sky so blue it might have been painted. The architects and designers involved include Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustav Stickley, and Princeton's own Michael Graves, who, along with designing two hotels for Walt Disney World and household objects like alarm clocks and tea kettles, turned the central New Jersey cow barn featured here into a habitable work of art.

Three Princeton houses are represented. One is the imposing Tudor structure near the Battlefield known in the text simply as the Barn. The British may have lost the battle and the war but the Tudor influence employed by architect Raleigh Gildersleeve lives on, not only in the Barn's two half-timbered towers but in the heart of Princeton in the quaint Elizabethan presence of the building housing Hamilton Jewelers, formerly one of the Pyne dormitories.