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Oxford: An Architectural Guide$22.06Few cities have a greater concentration of significant architecture than Oxford, England. Within a city of only 130,000 inhabitants there are important buildings, many of them of great beauty, from every period from the eleventh century to the present.
Blue Guide Oxford & Cambridge, Sixth EditionSOLD OUTThe perfect introduction to these historic university cities.Attractions include a wealth of old buildings and excellent museums, beautiful churches, parks, and gardens. The sixth edition offers plenty of ideas for out-of-town excursions, and useful, up-to-date recommendations on where to stay and what to eat. 20 maps and plans, 20 line drawings.
Oxford and Cambridge (Blue Guides)$104.64This guide gives detailed histories of both Oxford and Cambridge's colleges, churches and museums. It includes essays on the history of the two cities and their architecture, and covers places to visit within a 20-mile radius of each city.
John Nash: Architect of the Picturesque$83.60John Nash is universally recognised as one of the most important architects of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. As the man responsible for the creation of Regent Street and Regent's Park, he left an indelible mark on the West End of London, and his two most famous buildings - the Brighton Pavilion and Buckingham Palace - are crucial to any understanding of the monarchy in the age of the Prince Regent (later George IV).
Blue Guide Country Houses of England (Blue Guides)$42.39This guide covers nearly 400 historic country houses in England.County by county descriptions cover most of the houses regularly open to the public and details of the architects, artists, craftsmen and families responsible for them. Black-and-white photographs and maps throughout.
Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides)$46.90Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as ‘half home county, half West Country’. This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in consequence, broad and remarkable.
The Renaissance Villa in Britain 1500 1700$62.11Leading architectural and garden historians trace the early history of the villa in Britain for the first time. The alluring ideal of villa life originated in classical antiquity, was revived in Renaissance Italy, and then spread throughout Europe, producing new and exciting architectural forms. This book contains both thematic chapters and case studies with famous buildings such as the Queen's House, Greenwich (Inigo Jones), and Winslow Hall, Buckinghamshire (attributed to Wren) being analysed and reinterpreted.
Sir James Pennethorne and the Making of Victorian$44.09For a period of thirty years in the mid-nineteenth century James Pennethorne was more intimately involved with the planning and building of London than any other major architect. A pupil of John Nash, he took over his teacher's practice and became government architect for the first half of Victoria's reign. He was responsible for the planning of new streets, the laying out of parks, and the design of important public buildings such as the Public Record Office, the west wing of Somerset House, and the Duchy of Cornwall office.