Lost worlds

SERVICE, Alastair

Collins

Examines dozens of bizarre megalithic structures found throughout Western Europe, posing theories as to the methods of their construction, their astronomical, religious, and symbolic significance, and the cultures that created them

Megaliths and Their Mysteries: A Guide to the Standing Stones of Europe

History

Bradbery, Jean

Europe

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Edwardian interiors: Inside the homes of the poor, the average, and the wealthy

Barrie Jenkins

The Buildings of Britain: Anglo-Saxon and Norman

The buildings of Britain: Anglo-Saxon and Norman: a guide and gazetteer

Travel

Edwardian Architecture: A Handbook to Building Design in Britain 1890-1914

Contents: The background of the period 1890-1914 in Great Britain -- Arts and crafts architecture -- the house -- The free style and large buildings -- Public buildings and the baroque revival -- Church architecture -- late Gothic and Byzantine -- Free design and the Edwardian house -- Large buildings and the Edwardian free style -- The Edwardian arts and crafts churches -- Towards rationalism -- offices and factories -- High Edwardian baroque -- The Beaux-arts influence on Edwardian classicism -- The neo-Georgian house -- Palaces of prosperity -- variations on the Grand Manner. Leading architectures and some of their buildings 1890-1914.

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Oxford University Press

London 1900

Rizzoli

Megaliths and Their Mysteries is the first illustrated guide to the ancient stone works of western Europe. Historians Alastair Service and Jean Bradbery take a close look at the people who built them, why and when they were created, and how they relate to one another. From Carnac in Brittany, which is the greatest single center of megaliths in the world, to Sardinia, the site of the last flowering of megalith-building ending about 500 B.C., the authors describe in detail the main megalithic sites of fifteen countries. Drawing on meticulous research, they discuss the rites performed at each site, the use of the megaliths as astronomical observatories, and the ancient creation myths which are symbolized in the structures' designs and carvings. With over 100 new photographs and 40 maps and plans, Megaliths and Their Mysteries is an intriguing visual guide to the locations and styles of these magical monuments, as well as a rare insight into the cultures that created them.

Megaliths and their mysteries: the standing stones of Old Europe

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The purpose of the great stone circles and stone-chambered barrows of Europe has always been a mystery. This is a country-by-country guide to the continent's great stone monuments, combining a detailed guide with a gazetteer, and presenting a provocative theory on their use and purpose.

Standing Stones of Europe: A Guide to the Great Megalithic Monuments

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Thames&Hudson

Provenance; from the library of Piers Gascoigne with his bookplate. Series; World of art library. Physical description; 216 p. : ill., plans ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibl.: p. 193-197. - Index. Contents; The background to the period (1890-1914) in Great Britain - Arts and crafts architecture - the house -- The free style and large buildings -- Public buildings and the baroque revival -- Church architecture - late Gothic and Byzantine -- Free design and the Edwardian house -- Large buildings and the Edwardian free style -- The Edwardian arts and crafts churches -- Towards rationalism - offices and factories -- High Edwardian baroque -- The beaux-arts influence on Edwardian classicism -- The neo-Georgian house -- Palaces of prosperity - variations on the grand manner. Subjects; Architecture, Edwardian. Architecture, Victorian. Architecture, Edwardian - Great Britain - History. Architecture - Great Britain. Architecture, British. Architecture - 19/20TH Century - United Kingdom. Great Britain - History - Edward VII, (1901-1910). Architecture - Great Britain, (1890-1914). Victorian Society. Great Britain - Architecture - (1890-1914). Architecture, Modern-20th century-Great Britain. architecture. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

Edwardian Architecture

Photography & Video

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