The city and the king : architecture and politics in Restoration London / Christine Stevenson
2013, 1st edition. New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Item #384534
ISBN: 9780300190229
Physical description; vii, 399 pp., illustrations (some color), plans, portraits, 27 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-388) and index. Contents; Architecture's meanings in seventeenth-century London -- The civic arena before the Restoration -- The triumphs and entertainments of 1660 and early 1661 -- April 1661 : the coronation entry -- Configuring new London before and after September 1666 -- "Conformity of building, and of heart" -- Talking horses and civic gold : the mid-1670s -- Madness and memory -- Places of public prayer -- Prospects : looking at London, 1679-83. Subjects; Architecture Political aspects and Society Great Britain History 17th century. Buildings. City of London. Restoration Period.
Price: €48.00