Hampton Court : a social and architectural history / Simon Thurley
2003, 1st edition. New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for studies in British art, Yale University Press. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #420392
ISBN: 0300102232
Physical description; ix, 450 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 32 cm. Contents; 1. A house of the knights hospitallers -- 2. Thomas Wolsey's Hampton Court -- 3. Henry VIII and the completion of the Tudor Palace -- 4. The later Tudors and the Palace of Pleasure -- 5. The Tudor Pleasure Grounds and the locality -- 6. Hampton Court and the invention of a Tudor style -- 7. The Stuart Ancestral Seat 1603-1640 -- 8. The Lord Protector's country house 1640-1660 -- 9. The restoration: Hampton Court on the sidelines 1660-1688 -- 10. Hampton Court transformed: the reign of William and Mary -- 11. Queen Anne and the decline of the court -- 12. The glory of Hampton Court: the gardens 1603-1714 -- 13. Royal rivalry: the Hampton Court of George I -- 14. Apogee: George II -- 15. Antiquarians and architecture: the palace buildings 1760-1914 -- 16. Lodging the court 1700-1737 and Grace and Favour 1760-1914 -- 17. The parks and gardens 1714-1914 -- 18. The twentieth century. Subjects; Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England) History. Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, Londres, Angleterre) Histoire. Architecture England London. Palaces England London. Architecture England London. Palaces England London. PALACES, 16TH & 17TH CENTURY - England. Palaces England London History. Architecture England London. Great Britain - Social history - 16th/17th/18th/19th/20th centuries. Architecture, British - 16th/17th centuries. Art, Modern - 16th/17th/18th/19th/20th centuries. Royalty in art.
Price: €125.00