Vauxhall Gardens : a history / David Coke & Alan Borg.

Main entry:

Coke, David.

Title & Author:

Vauxhall Gardens : a history / David Coke & Alan Borg.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 473 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans, music, facsimiles ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The new spring garden -- The master-builder of delight -- Favourite fancies -- Universal harmony -- The establishment -- This inchanted grove -- A composition of baubles -- Positively the last night forever -- Appendices -- Chronology.
Shortlisted for the Art Book Prize (formerly Banister Fletcher Prize), 2012.

Summary:

In the first book on the subject for over fifty years, Alan Borg and David E. Coke reveal the teeming life, the spectacular art and the ever-present music of Vauxhall in fascinating detail.

Resources:
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Abstract / Autoreninformation
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780300173826 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300173822 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Vauxhall Gardens London
Vauxhall Gardens (London) historia.
Arts, British England London History.
Amusements England London History.
Popular culture England London History.
Arts britanniques Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Culture populaire Angleterre Londres Histoire.
Performing Arts.
Amusements
Arts, British
Intellectual life
Popular culture
Freizeitpark
Kultur
Populärkultur historia England London 1700-talet 1800-talet.
Vauxhall Gardens (London, England) History.
London (England) History.
London (England) Intellectual life 18th century.
London (England) Intellectual life 19th century.
Vauxhall Gardens (Londres, Angleterre) Histoire.
Londres (Angleterre) Histoire.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
Londres (Angleterre) Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
England London
England London Vauxhall Gardens
England
Vauxhall Gardens
London (Stadt, England, Grossbritannien); Vauxhall Gardens
London intellektuellt liv historia 1700-talet 1800-talet.
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

History
Illustrated works.

Added entries:

Borg, Alan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274034
Call No.: BIB 207784
Status: Available

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