Main entry:

Summerson, John, 1904-1992.

Title & Author:

Georgian London / John Summerson ; edited by Howard Colvin.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, ©2003.

Description:

xii, 435 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-415) and index.
1. Air-view -- 2. Foundation Stones: Taste -- 3. Foundation Stones: Wealth -- 4. The Mercantile Stronghold -- 5. The London House and its Builders -- 6. 'Fifty New Churches' and Some Others -- 7. Whig and Tory Landowners -- 8. Public Buildings and Private Palaces under George II -- 9. The Spirit and Practice of 'Improvement' -- 10. Architects of The Golden Age, 1763-1793 -- 11. Building during the French Wars, 1793-1815 -- 12. Great Estates: I -- 13. The Plans and Elevations of John Nash -- 14. Great Estates: II -- 15. Public Works after Waterloo -- 16. The Church and the State -- 17. Private Wealth and Public Architecture -- 18. A Note on Theatres -- 19. The Trail of Commerce -- 20. Greater Georgian London -- 21. The Ends of the Threads -- Epilogue: Image and Artifact, 1830-1988 -- App. Existing Georgian Buildings in the City and County of London.

Summary:

"In this classic of English architectural history (first published more than half a century ago), John Summerson provided a perceptive and highly readable account of a major building period in the history of London. Encompassing the architecture of the capital from the Great Fire of 1666 through the city's early nineteenth-century expansion, the book remains an indispensable guide to the genesis and development of Georgian London." "Summerson examines the way in which building in late Stuart and Georgian London was conditioned by social, economic and financial circumstances. He discusses the origins of the London squares, the characteristic forms of London street architecture, the great Georgian public buildings, the industrial architecture of the docklands, and the suburban developments of the early nineteenth century. The major Georgian buildings of the capital are critically discussed and the contributions of their architects evaluated with characteristic wit and elegance." "While Summerson's text is essentially unchanged in this edition, it has been corrected in the light of new research, expanded to include a few significant buildings that were originally overlooked, and enhanced with new illustrations. The Appendix of surviving Georgian buildings has also been carefully updated."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0300089872 (hardbound ; alk. paper)
9780300089875 (hardbound ; alk. paper)
0300089880 (paperbound ; alk. paper)
9780300089882 (paperbound ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture England London.
Architecture, Georgian England London.
Architecture Angleterre Londres.
Architecture Georgian Angleterre Londres.
21.62 history of architecture.
Architecture.
Architecture, Georgian.
Buildings.
Bouwkunst.
London (England) Buildings, structures, etc.
London.
England London.

Added entries:

Colvin, Howard, 1919-2007.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228197
Call No.: NA970 .S8 2003
Status: Available