Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
Author: European Drawings
Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: European Drawings 1
Author: George R. GoldnerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892360925
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Within a short time the Department of Drawings has acquired impressive holdings of European works on paper. This volume, the first in a series intended to keep scholars apprised of acquisitions, contains 149 entries on Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, and other works ranging in date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Artists represented include Rembrandt, Cezanne, Blake, Goya, Dürer, Savery, Rubens, Millet, Veronese, Caravaggio, Raphael, and numerous others. All drawings are illustrated at full-page size.
The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820
Author: Leslie TomoryPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422042
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
"Beginning in 1580, London companies sold water to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city's houses had water connections-making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London's water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London's water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks, and it inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks."--Provided by the publisher.
The Amenities of Book-collecting and Kindred Affections
Author: Alfred Edward NewtonPublisher:
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Collection of papers by the famous American book collector on the delights of collecting.
How to Form a Library
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description