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 . James II. and William III. did but little for Windsor; alsoGeorge I. and George II. George III. formed an early attachmentto Windsor, but little was done for a long period of his reign. In180
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 . James II. and William III. did but little for Windsor; alsoGeorge I. and George II. George III. formed an early attachmentto Windsor, but little was done for a long period of his reign. In1800 Mr. James Wyatt constructed a Gothic staircase, which, subse- EXCURSIONS TO THE VICINITY WINDSOR. SG3. II ii llllllllllllililil!,!i id in I i I I quently, was partly removed, and on the commencement of the reignof George IV. it was to the universal satisfaction of the nation at 864 LONDON. large that this monarch adopted the Castle as his favourite residence,and announced his desire to extend the repairs and alterations, neces-sary for his own immediate accommodation, to a thorough and lastingrestoration and re-establishment of the whole structure, and that SirJeffry Wyatville was appointed to the direction of this great work;and on the 5th of April, 1824, the House of Commons voted, onaccount of the works at Windsor Castle, the sum of 300,000/. Acommission of eight noblemen and gentlemen was appointed for thegeneral control of the works. (See following page for plan of theprincipal story.) Our space precludes our pointing out the precise alterations andgreat improvements made by Sir Jeffry Wyatville in the differentquarters of the Castle. It is therefore the more desirable on thepart
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