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Book Synopsis The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill (Classic Reprint) by : Lewis Melville
Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill (Classic Reprint) written by Lewis Melville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Letters of William Beckford of Fonthill Besides the material already accessible, though never before gathered together, 1 have been so fortunate as to obtain permission to include a very considerable number of letters, hitherto unpublished, written by Beckford between 1777 and 1844; that is to say, from his seven teenth to the last year of his long life. Beckford left his property to his surviving daughter, Susan Euphemia, wife of Alexander, tenth Duke of Hamilton; and, though his books and pictures have been dispersed, his correspondence and papers have been preserved in the Charter Room of Hamilton Palace. By the courtesy of the present Duke of Hamilton I have examined the letters and manuscripts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life and Letters written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life and Letters and the London Mercury and Bookman by :
Download or read book Life and Letters and the London Mercury and Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Life and Letters of William Beckford, of Fonthill by : Lewis Saul Benjamin
Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford, of Fonthill written by Lewis Saul Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life and Letters of William Beckford, of Fonthill ... by : Lewis Saul Benjamin
Download or read book The Life and Letters of William Beckford, of Fonthill ... written by Lewis Saul Benjamin and published by London, W. Heinemann. This book was released on 1910 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vathek: an Arabian tale. (Memoir. By William North.-The Amber Witch ... Edited ... by W. Meinhold ... Translated from the German by E. A. Friedländer.) by : William Beckford
Download or read book Vathek: an Arabian tale. (Memoir. By William North.-The Amber Witch ... Edited ... by W. Meinhold ... Translated from the German by E. A. Friedländer.) written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Beckford written by Perry Gauci and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era. He was born in 1709 into a family of wealthy sugar planters living in Jamaica, when the colonies were still peripheral to Britain. By the time he died in 1770, the colonies loomed large and were considered the source of Britain’s growing global power. Beckford grew his fortune in Jamaica, but he spent most of his adult life in London, where he was elected Lord Mayor twice. He was one of the few politicians to have experienced imperial growing pains on both sides of the Atlantic, and his life offers a riveting look at how the expanding empire challenged existing political, social, and cultural norms./div
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Book Synopsis Fonthill Recovered by : Caroline Dakers
Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
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Download or read book Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated the Print Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1-3 include "Bibliographies of modern authors by Henry Danielson."
Book Synopsis Harems of the Mind by : Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Download or read book Harems of the Mind written by Ruth Bernard Yeazell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a nuanced reading of Ingres's Bain turc and other works, Yeazell concludes that for some the appeal of the harem lay in the fantasy of eluding time and death."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Synopsis The Architecture of Humanism by : Geoffrey Scott
Download or read book The Architecture of Humanism written by Geoffrey Scott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this work appeared in 1914 it evoked a heated discussion. Geoffrey Scott offers an analysis of the theories behind 19th- and 20th-century architecture. He discusses the classical tradition as reflected in the architecture of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and the role given the human body in that tradition.
