Author: Fonthill abbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey. A Catalogue of the Magnificent ... Library ... Also of the Books of Prints, Galleries of Art, Curious Missals and Manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese Drawings, &c. ... which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the Abbey, on ... the 9th of September, 1823, and Nine Following Days, on ... the 3d of October, & Four Following Days, and on ... 23d October ... & Four Following Days,...
Author: Fonthill abbeyThe Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey
Author: Auction catalogue, books of Beckford William, 9 September to 29 October 1823
Author: S. Leigh Sotheby (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Costly and Interesting Effects of Fonthill Abbey
Author: William BeckfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Valuable Library of Books, in Fonthill Abbey
Author: William BeckfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842
Author: John ArcherPublisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
While few historians would dispute the importance of the printed book in the development of domestic design in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, this is the first major study to trace the evolution of architectural ideas during the period by examining the literary output of architects. It is a work of extraordinary scholarship, based on an extensive search of dozens of major library collections, that will serve as a standard resource for researchers and librarians, book dealers and collectors. Most of the book is devoted to descriptions of hundreds of books and periodicals containing original designs for domestic structures. The earliest title described is Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1715), an important Palladian manifesto and the first book to illustrate a series of the author's own executed designs for dwellings, intended to redirect and reform British architectural taste, and the latest title is Supplement (1842) to John Claudius Loudon's Encyclopedia. Related materials on agriculture, landscape design, drawing, and perspective also are covered. Each entry includes a bibliographic description of all known editions and a commentary that describes and analyzes the text and plates, focusing in particular on the author's ideas and approaches to design issues. Appendixes to the principal entries provide a checklist of additional handbooks and manuals by important authors such as Crunden, Halfpenny, Langley, Nicholson, Pain, Richardson, Salmon, and Swan, and books showing domestic interiors. There is also a valuable short-title chronological list, and a list of printers, publishers, and booksellers. In a lengthy introductory essay, Archer discusses architecture and the book trade, the format and content of the books, and aspects of architectural theory and design-including ideas of "character" and "retirement," dwelling types such as villas, cottages, and row houses, model housing for laborers, and town and village planning. John Archer is Associate Professor in the Humanities Program at the University of Minnesota.
Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons: Gemmet, R. J. Poets and men of letters
Author: Alan Noel Latimer MunbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Galignani's Messenger
Author: English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description