18th-century buildings & interiors reading list
Arnold, Dana, ed. The Georgian Villa. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1996.
Baird, Rosemary. Mistress of the House: Great Ladies and Grand Houses, 1670-1830. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003.
Beard, Geoffrey W. Craftsmen and Interior Decoration in England, 1660-1820. Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew and Sons; New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981.
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. London: Harper Collins, 1997.
Bristow, Ian C. Architectural Colour in British Interiors, 1615-1840. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996.
Bryant, Julius. Robert Adam: Architect of Genius. Edinburgh and London: National Library of Scotland and English Heritage, 1992.
Crook, Joseph Mordaunt. The Greek Revival: Neo-classical Attitudes in British Architecture, 1760-1870. 1972. Rev. ed., London: John Murray 1995.
Fleming, John. Robert Adam and his Circle in Edinburgh and Rome. London: John Murray, 1962.
Friedman, Joseph. Spencer House: Chronicle of a Great London Mansion. London: A. Zwemmer, 1993.
Girouard, Mark. Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978.
Harris, Leslie. Robert Adam and Kedleston: The Making of a Neo-Classical Masterpiece. Ed. by Gervase Jackson-Stops. Exh. Cat. Kedleston, Derbyshire; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York. London: National Trust, 1987.
Honour, Hugh. Neo-classicism. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1968.
Jones, Mark, ed. Designs on Posterity: Drawings for Medals. Exh. Cat. The British Museum. London: British Art Medal Trust, 1994.
Morley, John. Regency Design, 1790-1840: Gardens, Buildings, Interiors, Furniture. London: A. Zwemmer, 1993.
Salmon, Frank. Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture. Aldershot; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2000.
Scott, Jonathan. The Pleasures of Antiquity: British Collectors of Greece and Rome. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.
Snodin, Michael, and John Styles. Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain, 1500-1900. London: V&A Publications, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 2001.
Stillman, Damie. English Neo-Classical Architecture. Vol. 1. London: A. Zwemmer; New York: Distributed in the USA by Sotheby's Publications: Harper and Row, 1988.
Summerson, John. Architecture in Britain, 1530-1830. 1953. Rev. ed., Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965.
Sykes, Christopher Simon. Private Palaces: Life in the Great London Houses. London: Chatto and Windus, 1985; New York: Viking Press, 1986.
Walker, Stephanie, ed. Vasemania: Neoclassical Form and Ornament in Europe: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. The Bard Graduate Center, New York. London and New Haven: Yale University Press for the Bard Graduate Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
Watkin, David. Athenian Stuart: Pioneer of the Greek Revival. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1982.
Watkin, David. Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and the Neo-Classical Idea. London, John Murray, 1968.
Wilton, Andrew, and Ilaria Bignamini, eds. The Grand Tour. The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. Cat. London: Tate Gallery, 1996.
Worsley, Giles. Classical Architecture in Britain: The Heroic Age. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
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