Author: Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786948605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75) was an inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. This publication explores Baskerville in his social and economic context and evaluates his impact.
John Baskerville
Author: Caroline Archer-Parré
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786948605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75) was an inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. This publication explores Baskerville in his social and economic context and evaluates his impact.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786948605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75) was an inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. This publication explores Baskerville in his social and economic context and evaluates his impact.
Old and New Birmingham
Author: Robert Kirkup Dent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birmingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The reliquary
Harvard Historical Studies
Aztalan
Author: Robert A. Birmingham
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870205188
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear? Birmingham and Goldstein attempt to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of people who first settled here in 1100 AD. Filled with maps, drawings, and photographs of artifacts, this small volume examines a time before modern Native American people settled in this area.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870205188
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear? Birmingham and Goldstein attempt to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of people who first settled here in 1100 AD. Filled with maps, drawings, and photographs of artifacts, this small volume examines a time before modern Native American people settled in this area.
Stories from Home
Author: Margaret Ponsonby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317049861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Most homes in the past were not elite, wealthy interiors complete with high fashion furnishings, designed by well-known architects and designers, as many domestic histories often seem to have assumed. As this book makes clear, there were in fact an enormous variety of house interiors in England during the period 1750-1850, reflecting the location, status and gender of particular householders, as well as their changing attitudes, tastes and aspirations. By focusing on non-metropolitan homes, which represented the majority of households in England, this study highlights the need for historians to look beyond prevailing attitudes that often reduce interiors to generic descriptions based on high fashions of the decorative arts. Instead it shows how numerous social and cultural influences affected the manner in which homes were furnished and decorated. Issues such as the availability of goods, gender, regional taste, income, the second-hand market, changing notions of privacy and household hierarchies and print culture, could all have a significant impact on domestic furnishing. The study ends with a discussion of how domestic interiors of historic properties have been presented and displayed in modern times, highlighting how competing notions of the past can cloud as well as illuminate the issue. Combining cultural history and qualitative analysis of evidence, this book presents a new way of looking at 'ordinary' and 'provincial' homes that enriches our understanding of English domestic life of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317049861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Most homes in the past were not elite, wealthy interiors complete with high fashion furnishings, designed by well-known architects and designers, as many domestic histories often seem to have assumed. As this book makes clear, there were in fact an enormous variety of house interiors in England during the period 1750-1850, reflecting the location, status and gender of particular householders, as well as their changing attitudes, tastes and aspirations. By focusing on non-metropolitan homes, which represented the majority of households in England, this study highlights the need for historians to look beyond prevailing attitudes that often reduce interiors to generic descriptions based on high fashions of the decorative arts. Instead it shows how numerous social and cultural influences affected the manner in which homes were furnished and decorated. Issues such as the availability of goods, gender, regional taste, income, the second-hand market, changing notions of privacy and household hierarchies and print culture, could all have a significant impact on domestic furnishing. The study ends with a discussion of how domestic interiors of historic properties have been presented and displayed in modern times, highlighting how competing notions of the past can cloud as well as illuminate the issue. Combining cultural history and qualitative analysis of evidence, this book presents a new way of looking at 'ordinary' and 'provincial' homes that enriches our understanding of English domestic life of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John Parker Anderson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Class List of the Books in the Reference Library
Author: Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description