FIVE HUNDRED BUILDINGS OF LONDON

500 stunning duotone photographs showcase the finest, most majestic and interesting examples of architecture in London. For each building, monument and structure there is its name, address and location, year of completion or renovation and brief description highlighting distinctive features. From the splendid Apsley House, the Bank of England, Banqueting House and Bedford Square, the British Library and British Museum, Buckingham Palace to Harrods, Holloway Estate, the Houses of Parliament, Lord's Cricket Ground, New Globe Theatre, New Scotland Yard, Old Bailey, Paddington Station, Queen's House Greenwich, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Savoy Hotel, Senate House, Tate Britain, Victoria and Albert Museum, Westminster Abbey and Ye Olde Mitre Tavern are among them. There are examples of a modernist house from the 1930s in SW3, the King's Head and Eight Bells established 1580 at No.50 Cheyne Walk, the spectacular columned entrance of Richmond Terrace in Whitehall, John Nash's Sussex Place on the outer circle of Regent's Park from 1822 and the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue from 1700 by Joseph Avis. Theatres, cathedrals, palaces to town houses, hotels and clubs, a visual and historic book of architectural surprises. For each there is a full page photograph and its places in historical context at the back of the book. 638pp in square softback with location maps by postcode throughout, a real heavyweight of a book, 16.5 x 19cm, import price.