Illustrated book tells the story of Prince Albert's life with particular reference to his work. It shows him as family man, private collector, patron, landowner, and private secretary to his wife, Queen Victoria. He was passionately interested in education - in the arts and the sciences - and his enthusiasm for reform extended to the army, the universe, the universities, learned societies and housing and conditions of ordinary families.

Prince Albert: His Life and Work

Hobhouse, Hermione

History

Hamish Hamilton

182 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. This Shows Him As A Family Man, Private Collector, Patron And Philanthropist, Landowner, And Private Secretary To His Wife Queen Victoria.

Prince Albert, his life and work

Europe

H.Hamilton

Lost London: A century of demolition and decay

Macmillan

Lost London: A Century of Demolition and Decay

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Physical description; 166 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (1 col.), plans, ports (1 col.) ; 25 cm. Notes; Bibl., p. 160. - Index. Subjects; Architecture - Westminster (London Borough) - History. Architecture - England - London - Westminster - History. Historic buildings - England - London. Streets - England - London. Architecture - England - London - History. Architecture - England - Westminster (London) - History. Architecture - England - Westminster (London Borough) - History. London. History. Improvements. Metropolitan. Creation. Boulevards. Rebuilding. Building. Regent Street, London - History. Regent Street (London, England). London (England) - Buildings, structures, etc. Regent Street (London, England) - History. London (England) - History. Regent Street. Westminster. Regents Park. Piccadilly Circus. London (England) - Streets - Regent Street. Architecture - London - Westminster (London Borough).Regent Street, to 1971. Local history. Regent Street - London - Shops - Shopping. architecture. Regent Street (London). London - Regent Street. Genre; Illustrated.

A History Of Regent Street (London, England)

MacDonald and Jane's, London. Queen Anne Press

DUST JACKET IS THE SAME AS STOCK PHOTO, BUT WITH MODERATE SCUFFING/EDGE WEAR. BOOK IS IN VERY NICE CONDITION. OCCASIONAL SCUFF OR MINOR DISCOLORATION AT EDGE OF COVERS/SPINE, BUT PAGES ARE CLEAN AND WITHOUT MARKING/WRITING.

Lost London

Houghton/Mifflin

xx 451p large hardback with dustjacket, excellent fresh and clean copy, as new, Nobel laureate name in pencil to endpaper

Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition: Art, Science, and Productive Industry : A History of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

History & Criticism

UNKNO

The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Crystal Palace which housed it together became a British icon, a symbol of free trade, and a national success funded not only by taxes but by public subscription. Though the Palace itself was banished to Sydenham, to leave Hyde Park free for Londoners, the Commission was re-invented under Prince Albert to spend the profits for the advancement of British industry. The Commissioners first established South Kensington with its Museums and Colleges of Art and Science, the Albert Hall and the Royal College of Music, and then moved into the training of scientists and artists. They assisted in the expansion of the British School at Rome, and for over a century 1851 Scholars have been contributing to British scientific discoveries.This book celebrates 150 years of the Commission's work, fired by the "application of art and science to productive industry", a story of some success and permanent record, yet a pilgrimage not without its episodes of dissension and controversy.

The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition: Science, Art and Productive Industry: The History of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

Bloomsbury Academic

Regent Street is one of the best known streets in London. This riveting history traces its development from a royal scheme devised for the Prince Regent by his favorite architect, John Nash, in the 19th century to its role as the "destination street" of today. It was originally celebrated as the "avenue of superfluities"—full of modish shops providing clothes, British and imported dress material, and luxuries like fans, furs, and jewelry. So successful were the businesses that rebuilding was necessary by the end of Queen Victoria's reign. Fashionable new shops and department stores in Portland stone replaced Nash's stucco, creating the Regent Street of today. The author, an eminent historian of London, traces the creation of the whole area from the clubs of Waterloo Place along the whole length of Regent Street to the villas of Regent's Park, and discusses the problems its projectors had to overcome. She records the many talented architects and inventive shopkeepers who established the street as a fashionable quarter, and traces the many changes and problems faced by landlords and occupiers in keeping their street in the forefront of style for two centuries.

Regent Street

The History Press

The Survey of London - 100 years old in 1994 - traces its origins to the campaigning zeal of the 1890s when C.R. Ashbee and a group of conservationists set up the Watch Committee to campaign against the demolition of historic buildings, such as the Trinity Hospital (1695) in Mile End Road. Out of this grew what Osbert Lancaster described as "the great enterprise", creating an inventory of all London's historic buildings as an aid to their protection. That massive undertaking still continues and this work traces the vicissitudes of the Survey over the last 100 years. It describes an organization that has been in the forefront of the conservation movement and whose work has been hailed as "the London conservationist's Bible".

London survey'd: The work of the Survey of London, 1894-1994

Commission

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