Baud Benjamin C1807 1875 (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. folio. pp. 2 p.l., 12. engraved frontis. portrait of B.Baud & 40 lithographed plates (16 tinted). wood-engraved title vignette & 1 ground plan in the text. 19th century half morocco, large lettering piece on upper cover (recased, joints rubbed, spine ends & corners worn, some foxing throughout as usual). First Edition. Gandy and Baud assisted Jeffry Wyatt in the remodelling of the Upper Ward and Round Tower of Windsor Castle for King George IV and King William IV, 1824-40. In 1824 the House of Commons had voted 150,000 pounds for the improvements that were to render the castle a fit residence for the Sovereign but by completion, the project had cost almost three quarters of a milllion pounds. Wyatt's designs were chosen over those of John Soane, Robert Smirke and John Nash. On the laying of the first stone, the architect was authorized by the King to call himself 'Wyatville' and to adopt the word 'Windsor' as his motto; in 1828, on the completion of the royal quarters, he was honoured with a knighthood and a residence in the Winchester Tower. Not in Abbey.…