Coke david borg alan (3 risultati)

1st edn 2nd printing. 4to. Original silver gilt lettered black cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG). Pp. xii + 473, illus throughout with coloured and b&w photos (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. 4to. Pp: xii, 473. First Edition Third Printing. Publisher's colour-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. Publisher's black boards lettered in silver at spine. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout.ISBN: 9780300173826Heavy book, may require additional postage. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Small closed tear [approx. 1cm] to rear dust jacket next to top of spine. Some edge wear to dust jacket. Some very light surface scratches to rear dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and place of assignation into a dream-world filled with visual arts and music, and finally into a commercial site of mass entertainment. By the 18th century, Vauxhall was crucial to the cultural and fashionable life of the country, patronized by all levels of society, from royal dukes to penurious servants. 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. Borg and Coke's historical exposition of the entire history of the gardens makes a major contribution to the study of London entertainments, art, music, sculpture, class and ideology. It reveals how Vauxhall linked high and popular culture in ways that look forward to the manner in which both art and entertainment have evolved in modern times. (20120223).…