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Vauxhall Gardens : a history / David Coke & Alan Borg.

Title: Vauxhall Gardens : a history / David Coke & Alan Borg.
Author: Coke, David
Publication: New Haven : Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2011.

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Borg, Alan

Description

xii, 473 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., plans, music, facsims.; 29 cm.

Summary

In the first book on the subject for over fifty years, Alan Borg and David E. Coke reveal the teeming life, the spectacular art and the ever-present music of Vauxhall in fascinating detail.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The new spring gardens, 1661-1730 -- The master builder of delight : Jonathan Tyers and his first two decades at Vauxhall, 1729-1750 -- Favourite fancies : the artwork, 1732-1765 -- Universal harmony : the music, 1732-1793 -- The complicated machine : Vauxhall Gardens as a business -- This inchanted grove : the development of the gardens, 1751-1786 -- An era of change : from the Jubilee of 1786 to the Royal Gardens of 1822 -- Positively the last night for ever : the final decades at the gardens, 1820-1859 -- Appendices.

ISBN

9780300173826 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300173822 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010051068

OCLC

693684108
SCSB-11966993

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library