Vauxhall Gardens : a history / David Coke & Alan Borg.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, ©2011.Description: xii, 473 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans, music, facsimiles ; 29 cmISBN:- 0300173822
- 9780300173826
- Arts, British -- England -- London -- History
- Amusements -- England -- London -- History
- Popular culture -- England -- London -- History
- Vauxhall Gardens (London, England) -- History
- London (England) -- History
- London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- DA689.G3 C65 2011
- Shortlisted for the Art Book Prize (formerly Banister Fletcher Prize), 2012.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB468.36.G7 C65 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800185423 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The new spring garden -- The master-builder of delight -- Favourite fancies -- Universal harmony -- The establishment -- This inchanted grove -- A composition of baubles -- Positively the last night forever -- Appendices -- Chronology.
In the first book on the subject for over fifty years, Alan Borg and David E. Coke reveal the teeming life, the spectacular art and the ever-present music of Vauxhall in fascinating detail.
Shortlisted for the Art Book Prize (formerly Banister Fletcher Prize), 2012.