The small house in eighteenth-century London : a social and architectural history / Peter Guillery ; drawings by Andrew Donald ; new photographs by Derek Kendall.

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Main Author: Guillery, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press in association with English Heritage, c2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • The vernacular metropolis: looking across eighteenth-century London
  • 'The multiplicity of human habitations': understanding eighteenth-century London's smaller house architecture
  • Another Georgian Spitalfields: workshop tenements in London's silk district
  • Across London Bridge: tanning, timber and tradition in Southwark and Bermondsey
  • Waste and place: Mile End Road, Kingsland Road and ambivalence at the margins
  • The military-industrial satellite: shipbuilding and housebuilding from Deptford to Woolwich
  • Between picturesque and respectable: urban-vernacular architecture and gentility in London's outlying settlements
  • Along the coast and across the sea: reflections of the vernacular metropolis
  • 'Despicable cottages': improvement and artisan eclipse
  • A living tradition? Concluding remarks.