Biographical Dictionary Of British Architects, 1600-1840; Author: Colvin, Howard; Hardback; Book

Author: Colvin, Howard
Edition #3; Hardback; Book
1264 pages
Published: March 1995
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300060912

This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced in England, Scotland, and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1650) to that of William Burn (1789-1870) and Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860). The third edition of what began in 1954 as A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, it now includes 150 new entries.(This book), perhaps Colvin's best known work, is now in its revised and enlarged third edition. The volume is the standard reference work forall known architects practicing from the time of Inigo Jones to the end of the Georgian period.... The possibilities for research and cross reference that the dictionary provides cannot be overestimatThis reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2000 architects who practised in England, Scotland and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1650) to that of William Burn (1789-1870).