The city and the king : architecture and politics in Restoration London / Christine Stevenson
by Stevenson, Christine
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New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover. 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. 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.
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- The city and the king : architecture and politics in Restoration London / Christine Stevenson
- Author
- Stevenson, Christine
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- Hardcover
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- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300190220
- ISBN 13
- 9780300190229
- Publisher
- New Haven ; London : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2013
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