Sir John Soane : enlightenment thought and the Royal Academy lectures / David Watkin

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xx, 763 pp., illustrations (some color), 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-488) and index. Contents; pt. 1. The intellectual preparation. 1. Architectural discourse from Wotton to Sandby. 2. Soane's relations with the Royal Academy. 3. First principles and the myth of origin. 4. The architecture of character and sensation. 5. The symbolical language of antiquity -- pt. 2. The Royal Academy Lectures. 6. Analysis of the lectures. 7. Soane and his lecture illustrations. 8. The relation between Soane's ideas and his architecture -- App. 1 List of illustrations to Sandby's lectures at the Royal Academy -- App. 2 List of Soane's lecture illustrations at the Royal Academy /Margaret Richardson and David Watkin -- App. 3 Soane on his design for a royal palace, from Lecture V -- App. 4 An outline catalogue of papers relating to the lectures on architecture delivered at the Royal Academy by Sir John Soane, held at Sir John Soane's Museum / Susan Palmer -- App. 5 Chronology of the delivery of Sir John Soane's Royal Academy lectures /Susan Palmer. Subjects; Soane, John 1753-1837. Architects England ; Biography. Neoclassicism.