The lives of the British architects from William of Wykehan to Sir William Chambers
RA Collection: Book
Record number
17/720
Author
Imprint
London; New York: Duckworth and Co.; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909
Physical Description
xii, 337 pages, 39 preliminary leaves (incl. ports., plans) : frontispiece ; 20 cm. (hbk).
Contents
I. Wykeham and his predecessors -- II. Thorpe, Chrismas, Symons, Holt, Acroyde, and the Smithsons -- III. Inigo Jones -- IV. Webb, Hooke and Jerman -- V. Sir Christopher Wren -- VI. Bell of Lynn, Talman, Pratt, Hawksmore, and Vanbrugh -- VII. Archer, James of Greenwich, Campbell, Burlington, Pembroke, and Kent -- VIII. Batty Langley, Gibbs, Wood of Bath, Carr of York, Ripley, and the amateurs; Aldrich, Clarke, Burrough, and Essex -- IX. Vardy, Ware, Dance, Flitcroft, and Brettingham -- X. Taylor, Paine, Morris, the Adams and Chambers -- List of some of the authorities consulted
Copy Note
Presented to the RA Library by the Athenaeum Club Library. The front pastedown carries a 20th century Athenaeum Club library bookplate, overstamped 'cancelled'. The title page carries a blind-stamp embossed "Athenaeum Library 1910."
Name as Subject
William of Wykeham
Inigo Jones
Sir Christopher Wren
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Sir John Vanbrugh
Colen Campbell
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
William Kent
James Gibbs
John Carr
John Vardy
George Dance RA
Robert Adam
Sir William Chambers RA
James Paine
Henry Flitcroft
Isaac Ware
Robert Morris
Sir Robert Taylor
John Webb
Inigo Jones
Sir Christopher Wren
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Sir John Vanbrugh
Colen Campbell
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington
William Kent
James Gibbs
John Carr
John Vardy
George Dance RA
Robert Adam
Sir William Chambers RA
James Paine
Henry Flitcroft
Isaac Ware
Robert Morris
Sir Robert Taylor
John Webb