The Great Public Buildings of London: Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Each Edifice, with Illustrations

John Britton

ISBN 10: 1784538434 / ISBN 13: 9781784538439

Verlag: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Great Public Buildings of London: Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Each Edifice, with Illustrations
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1784538434
• ISBN-13: 9781784538439
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new
• Gewicht: 1,87 Kilogramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This two-volume work which was first published in 1825-8 presents London's most important buildings at a time of rapid urban transformation. Aiming to project a vision of London as a dynamic city of integrated courtly and commercial power, the 70 entries span a historical range from the medieval (Westminster Hall) to the early nineteenth century (Soane's Museum) and a diversity of building types from palaces and churches to banks, theatres, prisons and bridges. Edited by John Britton, a leading topographical authority of the period, and Auguste Charles Pugin, an Anglo-French architectural draughtsman, the volumes contain 146 engravings of the selected buildings, correctly scaled from different perspectives and including interior scenes as well as external plans. This was a landmark publication in its time and remains a vivid portrait of the London's built environment immediately before the advent of the railway.

This new edition includes an extended introduction by Stephen Daniels, Professor Emeritus of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

John Britton (1771-1857) was a writer and editor and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He was a leading authority on topography in the early nineteenth century.
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762-1832), father to the architect Augustus Welby Pugin, was a French emigre and architectural draughtsman.

Stephen Daniels is Professor Emeritus of Cultural Geography, University of Nottingham, UK.

John Britton (1771-1857) was an antiquary, topographer and author and editor of works on architecture and topography.He was an advocate of the preservation of national monuments and proposed that a society be set up for that purpose. He writings are credited with bringing architecture and topography to the wider public. Among his works are The Beauties of England and Wales, Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain and The Cathedral Antiquities of Britain. Augustus Pugin (1762-1832) was an architectural draughtsman and writer on mediaeval architecture. Highly regarded by John Nash, who employed him as a draughtsman, he provided the illustrations for an number of important architectural works, including Specimens of Gothic Architecture, Microcosm of London, The Royal Pavilion Brighton, and Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London.