Author: Derek Avery

Publisher/Date: Chaucer Press, 2003

ISBN: 9781904449010

Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dustjacket in fine condition, 144 pages

Description: Georgian and Regency architecture roughly spanned 1714 to 1830, and left a rich heritage on the British landscape. Here are the formal city squares of Edinburgh and the graceful crescents of the Circus at Bath; Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, with its many Greco-Roman-inspired outbuildings, and the distinctive round vestibule and spire of All Souls Church in Langham Place, London. Illustrated on nearly every page with photographs in color and black and white, this book is one in a series of architectural surveys that considers Britain’s rich architectural history over the past three centuries in the context of other famous buildings on the Continent and in America. Prolific freelance writer and broadcaster Derek Avery offers capsule histories of scores of such structures, organized by type, and also provides an index of architects and buildings of the period.