Temples of Mammon : the architecture of banking / John Booker
1990, First Edition. Edinburgh New York: Edinburgh University Press ; Distributed in North America by Columbia University Press. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #381733
ISBN: 0748601988
Physical description: xviii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-341) and index.
Contents: The era of private banking -- From Fleet Street to Corn Street: the impact of joint-stock banking -- The early savings banks -- High Victorian confidence and experimentation -- Tradition in disarray -- The twentieth century: prestige gained, lost and coveted. Subjects: Bank buildings Great Britain. Architecture Great Britain. Banques (Édifices) Grande-Bretagne. Architecture Grande-Bretagne. Architecture.
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