Town : prints & drawings of Britain before 1800 /

"Many provincial towns in Britain grew dramatically in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centers such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centers or as sp...

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Author / Creator: Nurse, Bernard (Автор)
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Язык:English
Imprint: Oxford : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2020.
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Итог:"Many provincial towns in Britain grew dramatically in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centers such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centers or as specialty destinations: visitors could find spa treatments in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket, and naval services in Portsmouth. Containing more than one hundred images of country towns in England, Wales, and Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough collection in the Bodleian Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this period, and finely drawn prospects and maps--made with greater accuracy than ever before--reveal their early development. This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals and letters of collector Richard Gough (1735-1809), who traveled throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age."--
Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in Portsmouth. Containing over 100 images of towns in England, Wales and Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough collection in the Bodleian Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this period, and finely drawn prospects and maps - made with greater accuracy than ever before - reveal their early development.This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals and letters of collector Richard Gough (1735-1809), who travelled throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age.
Объем:224 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 25 x 28 cm
Библиография:Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-221) and index.
ISBN:9781851245178
1851245170
Авторские замечания:Bernard Nurse is the former Librarian of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the author of London: Prints and Drawings before 1800 (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2017).