Georgian London - Softcover

Summerson, John

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ISBN 10: 0712650369 ISBN 13: 9780712650366

Publisher: Pimlico, 1991

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In this new edition, Sir John Summerson has completely overhauled and substantially revised his text. It tells the story of Georgian architecture as it really was, a product of ambition, industry and sometimes genius. Statesmen, connoisseurs, merchants, visionaries, architects and jerry-builders are among the many characters who people this history of London at the height of its glory. The author also wrote "John Nash", "Heavenly Mansions", "Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830" and edited "Book of John Thorpe" and "Classical Language in Architecture".

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Sir John Summerson (1904-1992) was the curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in London for almost forty years, simultaneously teaching the history of architecture at the Architectural Association in London and at Birkbeck College, University of London. His many books include Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (ISBN 0 300 05886 1, pb. [pound]20.00*) for the Yale Pelican History of Art series, Inigo Jones (ISBN 0 300 08244 4, pb. [pound]8.95), and The Classical Language of Architecture. Sir Howard Colvin is Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford University. His previous books include Essays in English Architectural History (ISBN 0 300 07034 9, [pound]45.00), A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (ISBN 0 300 07207 4, pb. [pound]30.00), Unbuilt Oxford (ISBN 0 300 03126 2, pb. [pound]25.00), and Architecture and the After-Life (ISBN 0 300 05098 4, [pound]55.00), all published by Yale University Press.

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