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GEORGIAN LONDON
George I came to the throne in 1714; George IV died
in 1830. Between those dates Georgian London trans-
formed itself into a great Imperial Capital. A criss-
cross pattern of streets and squares covered former
marshes and meadows; new bridges spanned the
Thames at Westminster and Blackfriars, and later at
three more points; new roads linked Paddington and
Islington, and pushed down into Southwark and
Lambeth; villages such as Hackney and Fulham
became suburbs; and the arcaded terraces of Somer-
set House and the Adelphi hinted at a Thames Em-
bankment. These are some of the bare facts of the
development: in Georgian London Sir John Sum-
merson fills them with life and meaning, showing
how closely the buildings and the history of an age
are connected. Statesmen, connoisseurs, merchants,
architects and jerry-builders - all are characters in
this absorbing story.
'As interesting as it is erudite' - New Statesman
Sir John Summerson...
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Fülszöveg
peregrine books
GEORGIAN LONDON
George I came to the throne in 1714; George IV died
in 1830. Between those dates Georgian London trans-
formed itself into a great Imperial Capital. A criss-
cross pattern of streets and squares covered former
marshes and meadows; new bridges spanned the
Thames at Westminster and Blackfriars, and later at
three more points; new roads linked Paddington and
Islington, and pushed down into Southwark and
Lambeth; villages such as Hackney and Fulham
became suburbs; and the arcaded terraces of Somer-
set House and the Adelphi hinted at a Thames Em-
bankment. These are some of the bare facts of the
development: in Georgian London Sir John Sum-
merson fills them with life and meaning, showing
how closely the buildings and the history of an age
are connected. Statesmen, connoisseurs, merchants,
architects and jerry-builders - all are characters in
this absorbing story.
'As interesting as it is erudite' - New Statesman
Sir John Summerson has been curator of Sir John
Soane's Museum since 1945. Among his publications
are John Nash, Architect to George IV, Ben
Nicholson, Sir John Soane, Sir Christopher Wren,
Architecture in Britain 1530-1830, Inigo Jones
and The London Building World of the Eighteen-
Sixties.
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