ABC/301 - Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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ABC/301

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Monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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  • 1914 (Creation)

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(19 May 1880–3 Feb 1964)

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English architect, teacher and writer about architecture during the first half of the 20th century. He was Professor of Architecture at University College London, a President of the Royal Academy, editor of Architects' Journal and founder of the Georgian Group.
ODNB Entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/35737

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An in-depth analysis of monumental classic architecture in Great Britain and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the Roman Palladian phase (1730-1780), the Greco-Roman phase (1780-1820), and the Greek phase (1820-1840), with plans, sections, elevations, details, drawings and pictures, to scale. Buildings Included are: The Bank of England, Liverpool; No. 57, 58, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London; Somerset House, London; The Casino, Marino Clontarf; The Customs House, Dublin; The City Hall, Dublin; Newgate Prison, London; The Bank of England, London; The Art Gallery, Manchester; The National Gallery, London; The British Museum, London; St. Pancras Church, London; The Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall; The Lansdown Tower, Bath; The High School, Edinburgh; The National Gallery, Edinburgh; The Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh; The Town Hall, Leith; The Municipal and County Buildings, Glasgow; St. Georges Hall, Liverpool; The Council Offices, Bristol; The London County and Westminster Bank, Lothbury; The Taylor and Randolph Buildings, Oxford; The Ashmolean and Taylorian Institute, Oxford; The Bank of England, Manchester; The Bank of England, Bristol; The Liverpool and London Globe Offices, Liverpool; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, St. George's Hall, Liverpool; Euston Station, London; The Goldsmith's Hall, London; The Royal Exchange, London; The Geological Museum, London; Offices of the Duchy of Cornwall, Cornwall; The National Provincial Bank of England, London.

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    scuffed spine

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