This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...finally succeeded in suppressing all the theatres around London, and so ended the history of Elizabethan playhouses. The architecture of the sixteenth century was inferior to that of the preceding age. Two city churches remain which date mainly from the period, St. Giles's Cripplegate, and St. Andrew's Undershaft, both ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...finally succeeded in suppressing all the theatres around London, and so ended the history of Elizabethan playhouses. The architecture of the sixteenth century was inferior to that of the preceding age. Two city churches remain which date mainly from the period, St. Giles's Cripplegate, and St. Andrew's Undershaft, both of them built before the accession of Elizabeth. They are roomy churches in the late perpendicular style, less interesting than those of an earlier date. A print of the Royal Exchange survives to provide an example of the public buildings of the period. It was a pseudo-classical structure which surrounded a quadrangular courtyard. Around the inner side of this was a colonnade, within which were two rows of shops, the one above the other. The pillars supported arches, and above these an upper storey had a facade decorated by statues of the sovereigns of England, contained in niches. A higher storey had dormer windows in the slanting roof. Outside the north entrance stood a tall Corinthian column, which was topped by a grasshopper, the crest of the Greshams. Such architecture has a self-consciousness which marks the fact that the middle ages had been left behind. The hall of Gray's Inn is an example of the dignified and beautiful buildings of its type which were erected in the period. It is a structure of red brick, of which the side walls are divided by buttresses, between which are windows in the prevalent domestic style. The gables have a curious battlement of brick. In the interior the fine oaken roof is remarkable and characteristic. Such houses as were newly built in the city in the reign of Elizabeth were still, for the most part, of brick and timber, of the type exemplified in those buildings of Staple's Inn which face on Holborn. The c...
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 15cm), viii, 396pp. Folding frontispiece, 26 plates. Original green cloth, gilt titling and design to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. Short split to the head of the spine, scattered foxing of the contents, bookplate to the front pastedown; overall, this book is in good condition.