The Georgian Group book of the Georgian house
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The Georgian Group book of the Georgian house
Other titles: Georgian house
Classmark: Bedford Collection F028
Creator(s): Parissien, Steven
Additional creator(s): Elizabeth Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain (1900-2002) (Writer of foreword); Gloucester, Richard (Writer of introduction); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Georgian Group (London, England) (Other)
Publisher: Aurum Press
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1995
Language: English
Size and medium: 240 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731684
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019944989105181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.
This book enables the reader to set the Georgian house in its historical context, shows how and why each aspect of a house came to be as it is, and help owners to preserve their homes for the enjoyment of the next generation. In the first part of the book Steven Parissien describes the development of the Georgian style in Britain from its introduction in the early eighteenth century through to the mid-nineteenth century and explains how the original inhabitants would have used the various rooms. In the second part he devotes a chapter to each element of the Georgian house, including roofs, brickwork and stonework, doors and windows, staircase and fireplaces, mouldings and plasterwork. Throughout the book he stresses the need for today's owners to understand the ideas, techniques and materials employed by those who built their homes. The book has been written with the owner, or would-be owner, of a modest family house or Georgian cottage primarily in mind.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection F028: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AD/10.
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