London In The Nineteenth Century
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At its imperial zenith, London was a city of breathtaking contradictions — a sprawling metropolis of soaring neoclassical grandeur and teeming, labyrinthine streets — and no artist captured this duality with greater precision than Thomas Shepherd. London in the Nineteenth Century presents a magnificent visual chronicle of the capital during its most transformative era, rendered through Shepherd's meticulous and celebrated engravings, accompanied by the historical and descriptive text of James Elmes. Together, they document the sweeping architectural ambitions of Regency London: its newly laid-out terraces, civic monuments, parks, and bridges rising under the direction of visionaries like John Nash, composing a portrait of a city consciously reinventing itself for the modern age. Shepherd's draughtsmanship is forensic in its accuracy yet deeply evocative in its atmosphere, making this volume an indispensable record for historians, architects, and admirers of urban history alike. The illustrations function simultaneously as art and as primary historical evidence, preserving streetscapes and buildings long since lost to demolition and redevelopment. Bracken Books' reissue ensures that this landmark work of topographical art reaches a new generation of readers, inviting them to walk the gas-lit thoroughfares of a city on the cusp of an era that would reshape the world — and to ask what, precisely, was lost in the relentless march of progress.
Author: Thomas Shepherd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Bracken Books
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
At its imperial zenith, London was a city of breathtaking contradictions — a sprawling metropolis of soaring neoclassical grandeur and teeming, labyrinthine streets — and no artist captured this duality with greater precision than Thomas Shepherd. London in the Nineteenth Century presents a magnificent visual chronicle of the capital during its most transformative era, rendered through Shepherd's meticulous and celebrated engravings, accompanied by the historical and descriptive text of James Elmes. Together, they document the sweeping architectural ambitions of Regency London: its newly laid-out terraces, civic monuments, parks, and bridges rising under the direction of visionaries like John Nash, composing a portrait of a city consciously reinventing itself for the modern age. Shepherd's draughtsmanship is forensic in its accuracy yet deeply evocative in its atmosphere, making this volume an indispensable record for historians, architects, and admirers of urban history alike. The illustrations function simultaneously as art and as primary historical evidence, preserving streetscapes and buildings long since lost to demolition and redevelopment. Bracken Books' reissue ensures that this landmark work of topographical art reaches a new generation of readers, inviting them to walk the gas-lit thoroughfares of a city on the cusp of an era that would reshape the world — and to ask what, precisely, was lost in the relentless march of progress.