Research Catalog

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, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Borg, Alan.

Description

xii, 473 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, plans, music, facsimiles; 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

• Vauxhall Gardens London
• Vauxhall Gardens (London) > historia
• 1700-1899
• Geschichte (umfassend)
• Arts, British > England > London > History
• Amusements > England > London > History
• Popular culture > England > London > History
• Performing Arts
• Amusements
• Arts, British
• Intellectual life
• Popular culture
• Freizeitpark
• Kultur
• Populärkultur > historia > England > London > 1700-talet > 1800-talet
• Vauxhall Gardens (London, England) > History
• London (England) > History
• London (England) > Intellectual life > 18th century
• London (England) > Intellectual life > 19th century
• England > London
• England > London > Vauxhall Gardens
• England
• London (Stadt, England, Grossbritannien); Vauxhall Gardens
• London > intellektuellt liv > historia > 1700-talet > 1800-talet

Genre/Form

• History
• Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The new spring garden -- The master-builder of delight -- Favourite fancies -- Universal harmony -- The establishment -- This inchanted grove -- A composition of baubles -- Positively the last night forever -- Appendices.

ISBN

• 9780300173826
• 0300173822

LCCN

2010051068

OCLC

• ocn693684108
• 693684108
• SCSB-9393855

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library