Author: Terence M RussellPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
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The Built Environment: Decorative art and industrial design, international exhibitions and collections, recreational and performing arts
Author: Terence M RussellPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
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The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library
Author: Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British LibrarySubject Index of Modern Books Acquired
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Catalogue of of Old English Furniture, Objects of Art, Silver Plate and Tapestry, the Property of Mrs. Percy Macquoid ... which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... at Their Great Rooms ... on Tuesday, June 30, 1925 ...
Author: Messrs. Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
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Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 25
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