Stowe - A Description of the Magnificent House and Gardens of the Right Honourable Richard, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham, ... Embellished with a General Plan of the Gardens, and Also a Separate Plan of Each Building (Paperback)


The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Bodleian Library (Oxford)<ESTCID>T188468<Notes>This edition in fact contains no plates. At foot of titlepage: "The description of the house and gardens, without the plans and views of the temples, may be had alone, price six-pence.." An edition with an identical titlepage but containing 35 pages plus plates was published in the same year.<imprintFull>London: printed for John Rivington; B. Seeley in Buckingham; and T. Hodgkinson at the New Inn at Stowe, 1763. <collation>32, 2]p.; 8

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The eighteenth-century fascination with Greek and Roman antiquity followed the systematic excavation of the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum in southern Italy; and after 1750 a neoclassical style dominated all artistic fields. The titles here trace developments in mostly English-language works on painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theater, and other disciplines. Instructional works on musical instruments, catalogs of art objects, comic operas, and more are also included. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Bodleian Library (Oxford)<ESTCID>T188468<Notes>This edition in fact contains no plates. At foot of titlepage: "The description of the house and gardens, without the plans and views of the temples, may be had alone, price six-pence.." An edition with an identical titlepage but containing 35 pages plus plates was published in the same year.<imprintFull>London: printed for John Rivington; B. Seeley in Buckingham; and T. Hodgkinson at the New Inn at Stowe, 1763. <collation>32, 2]p.; 8

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Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Country of origin

United States

Release date

September 2010

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First published

September 2010

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

42

ISBN-13

978-0699164665

Barcode

9780699164665

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0699164664



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