Sir James Pennethorne And The Making Of Victorian London
/ Geoffrey Tyack
- 1st ed.
- New York Cambridge University Press 1992
- xviii, 336 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index
For a period of thirty years in the mid-nineteenth century James Pennethorne was more intimately involved with the planning and building of London than any other major architect. A pupil of John Nash, he took over his teacher's practice and became government architect for the first half of Victoria's reign.