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 . ldings of the allanHHE ^T1? -quite Unkn0Wn in our street architecture. Upon PallcS^ o ex^mT thPv t PhWJ^ °f Which no other Part of the tow» affordsa3t ?SwV £ % a certain unmistakeable
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 . ldings of the allanHHE ^T1? -quite Unkn0Wn in our street architecture. Upon PallcS^ o ex^mT thPv t PhWJ^ °f Which no other Part of the tow» affordsa3t ?SwV £ % a certain unmistakeable quality as well asheTher nublt I I • T**2£*d dlstinSuish them from all our other buildings,?ritfch camtal th,tPfln? e * ^ T7 ^rf* to be the onl? structures in theenth^TalthW nf \^e Palazzi °f Mian cities>the to™ residences offrn^t ^re^fn ?°+blhty lQmg\ With here and there a» exception, of4mfewerStf £ *0t P *% h°melj> aPPeara» a»d Bridgewate!ouse, to which might be added Burlington House, were it not unfortunatel) ^^^^^£t^£S^^^ *nd half-guinea whist at the card table, it mustmotto. present age has so greatly degenerated that Fuimus Troes ought to be 29* LONDON. gr h r-i. UNIVERSITY CLUB-HOUSE, ELEVATION AND PLAN shut out from view, therefore, perforce, ignored by the public. Even of theclub-houses themselves the earlier erected ones do not evince much study oidesign, or exhibit anything striking, unless it be the University, in PallMall East (first opened in 1826), the number of members of which is limitedto 1000 ; 26?. 5s. entrance fee ; 61. annual subscription. The Union, limitedto 1000 members, entrance 32?. 10s., annual subscription, 61. 6s.; and th<United Service, limited to 1500 members, entrance 30?., and 61. annuallywhich are about the same date, namely, 1827 and 1828, bear upon them thimark of their respective architects, Sir Robert Smirke and John Nash. Th«Athenaeum, by Mr. Decinius Burton (the next club-house in point of date, ibeing opened
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