Author: Sir William ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture
Author: Sir William ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Sir William Chambers
Author: John HarrisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300069405
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Courtauld Gallery, London 10 October 1996-5 January 1997, Natiobalmuseum, Stockholm 20 February-20 April 1997.
Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils
Author: Sir William ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, 1772
Author: William ChambersSteam-Powered Knowledge
Author: Aileen FyfePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226276511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel—Gutenberg’s printing press had been around for nearly four centuries—but printed matter was still a rare and relatively expensive luxury. All this changed, however, as publishers began employing new technologies to astounding effect, mass-producing instructive and educational books and magazines and revolutionizing how knowledge was disseminated to the general public. In Steam-Powered Knowledge, Aileen Fyfe explores the activities of William Chambers and the W. & R. Chambers publishing firm during its formative years, documenting for the first time how new technologies were integrated into existing business systems. Chambers was one of the first publishers to abandon traditional skills associated with hand printing, instead favoring the latest innovations in printing processes and machinery: machine-made paper, stereotyping, and, especially, printing machines driven by steam power. The mid-nineteenth century also witnessed dramatic advances in transportation, and Chambers used proliferating railway networks and steamship routes to speed up communication and distribution. As a result, his high-tech publishing firm became an exemplar of commercial success by 1850 and outlived all of its rivals in the business of cheap instructive print. Fyfe follows Chambers’s journey from small-time bookseller and self-trained hand-press printer to wealthy and successful publisher of popular educational books on both sides of the Atlantic, demonstrating along the way the profound effects of his and his fellow publishers’ willingness, or unwillingness, to incorporate these technological innovations into their businesses.
Chambers History
Author: William Davis ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Some ancestry and many descendants of various Chambers emigrants from Scotland or England to the United States (and one immigrant to Canada). Descendants lived throughout the United States, and in Canada.
Kew
Author: Ray DesmondPublisher: Harvill Press
ISBN: 9781846559372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
This informative volume traces the extraordinary evolution over more than two centuries of Kew's historic landscape, which began with two private royal gardens and expanded through the work of some of our most distinguished garden designers and architects, resulting in an important range of listed buildings of which thirty-nine have survived. These, together with the latest additions to Kew's architectural heritage, are extensively illustrated and described. As much part of this fascinating landscape are the principal figures in Kew's history - among them Queen Caroline, her son Frederick Prince of Wales, his wife Princess Augusta, and George III; Sir Joseph Banks, who organized the first worldwide plant-collecting expeditions; Sir William Hooker and his son, Sir Joseph, who laid the foundations of the present Botanic Gardens; and successive directors who formulated policy and enabled improvements. Kew also played a pivotal role in the development of the British Empire's natural resources, the introduction of commercial crops to the colonies and the compilation of colonial floras. Its collaboration with overseas botanical gardens, alongside its establishment as an international scientific institution are equally crucial and examined in detail. Whilst previous accounts of Kew have relied almost entirely on printed sources, the present volume makes extensive use of archives which support modern Kew's primary objective: "the better management of the Earth's environment by increasing knowledge and understanding of the plant kingdom".
Chambers's Encyclopædia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The Book of Scotland
Author: William ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Greek Revival
Author: Joseph Mordaunt CrookPublisher: John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN: 9780719554551
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This study of the Greek revival opens with the rediscovery of Greece, involving the figures like Hell Fire Dashwood, Twitcher Sandwich and the Dilettanti Society. Their propagation of the Neo-Classical theory is explained and the expression of that theory in Greek Revival architecture covered.