The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . good-naturedly thaniudiciously and the vocabulary of criticism was ransacked for the most ful-some epithets of admiration, on account of the superlative magnificence of theinterior, the princ
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . good-naturedly thaniudiciously and the vocabulary of criticism was ransacked for the most ful-some epithets of admiration, on account of the superlative magnificence of theinterior, the principal apartments being fitted up and furnished in the LouisQuatorze fashion, which was at that time rather a novelty, it having been verydeservedly exploded, as being no better than expensive whimsicality and The Oriental Club-house, at the north-west angle of Hanover-square, waserected in 1827-8, by the same architects, but does not say much for theirtaste The most that can be said of it is, that it distinguishes itself plainlyenough from the other houses, and expresses its purpose by the usual club-house characteristic of only one tier of windows above the ground floor. Theinterior has lately received some fresh embellishment, some of the rooms andceilings having been decorated in a superior style, by Collman. This clubwas founded in 1824, by Sir John Malcolm, and, as its name indicates, consists. ARTHURS CLUB-HOUSE. CLUB-HOUSES. 305
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