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.
Richardson, Sir Albert Edward (1880-1964), architect
The New Vitruvius Britannicus consisting of Plans and Elevations of Modern Buildings, public and private, erected in Great Britain by the most celebrated architects. It begins with a short introduction and a suite of explanations of all the plates that follow. There are 72 original Etchings of the following buildings: Bowden Park, in Wiltshire, one of the Seats of Barnard Dickinson Esq.; Tusmore House, in Oxfordshire, the Seat of William Fermor Esq.; Pavilion at Brighton, in Sussex, belonging to His Royal Highness the Princess of Wales; Public Assembly Rooms; Sydney Lodge, near Hamble in Hampshire, the Seat of the Hon. Mrs Yorke; Gore Court, in Kent, the Seat of Gabriel Harper Esq.; Basildon House, in Berkshire, the Seat of Sir Francis Sykes; Longford House, in Shropshire, the Seat of Ralph Leeke Esq.; Broomfield Lodge, at Clapham, Surrey, the Seat of late Hon. Edward James Eliot; Villa at Putney Park, near Roehampton, in Surrey, belonging to Belby Thompson Esq.; Building erected on Great Tower Hill, London, by the Honourable the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford-Strond; Seat of William Henry Pigou Esq., at Windmill Hill, Sussex; Watton Wood Hall, in Hertfordshire, for Sir Thomas Rumbold; Southgate Grove, near Enfield, Middlesex, the Seat of Walker Gray Esq.; Addington Lodge, near Croydon, Surrey, the Seat of James Trecothick Esq.; Session House, Middlesex, London; Stoke Park House, near Devizes, Wiltshire, the Seat of Joshua Smith Esq.; Eastwell Park House, in Kent, a Seat of George Finch Hatton Esq.; Grossford House, in East Lothian, North Britain, a Seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Wemyss; Thornes House, near Wakefield, in Yorkshire, the Seat of James Milnes Esq.; Denton Hall, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, the Seat of Sir Henry Ibbetson; Doddington Hall, in Cheshire, the Seat of Sir Thomas Broughton; Claremont, in Surrey, the Seat of Earl of Tyrconnel; Crownest House, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, the Seat of William Walker Esq.; Courteen Hall, in Northamptonshire, the Seat of Sir William Wake; Buckminster Park, in Leicestershire, the Seat of Sir William Manners.
Richardson, George (c1738-1813), architectural and decorative draftsman
