In this new edition, Sir John Summerson has completely overhauled and substantially revised his text. It tells the story of Georgian architecture as it really was, a product of ambition, industry and sometimes genius. Statesmen, connoisseurs, merchants, visionaries, architects and jerry-builders are among the many characters who people this history of London at the height of its glory. The author also wrote "John Nash", "Heavenly Mansions", "Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830" and edited "Book of John Thorpe" and "Classical Language in Architecture".
- ISBN10 0712650369
- ISBN13 9780712650366
- Publish Date 10 October 1991 (first published December 1962)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 June 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Pimlico
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 328
- Language English