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KEY ARCHITECTS: A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY

WILLIAM KENT

John Dixon Hunt, William Kent: landscape garden designer: an assessment and catalogue of his designs, London: Zwemmer, 1987. Margaret Jourdain, The Work of William Kent: Artist, Painter, Designer and Landscape Gardener, London: Country Life, 1948. Timothy Mowl, William Kent: Architect, Designer, Opportunist, London: Jonathan Cape, 2006. Susan Weber, ed., William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013. Michael Wilson, William Kent: architect, designer, painter, gardener, 1685-1748, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984.

JAMES GIBBS Alec Cobbe and Terry Friedman, James Gibbs in Ireland; Newbridge, his villa for Charles Cobbe, Archbishop of Dublin, Bookham, 2005. James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture. Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments, London: 1728. James Gibbs, Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture, etc., London: W. Bonyer, 1732. Terry Friedman, James Gibbs, New Haven: Yale University Press,1984. Bryan D. G Little, The life and works of James Gibbs, London: Batsford, 1955. Geoffrey Tyack, ed., The Architecture of James Gibbs, Georgian Group Journal, vol. 27, 2019.

THE ADAM FAMILY Robert Adam and James Adam, The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 3 vols, vol. 1, London: the authors, 1778; vols 2 and 3, London: Priestley and Weale,1822; repr. in one vol., with an introduction by Henry Hope Reed, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2006. Eileen Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. David King, The Complete Works of Robert & James Adam, Butterworth Architecture, 1991. Ariyuki Kondō, Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment, London: Routledge, 2015. Jeremy Musson, Simon Jenkins, and Paul Barker, Robert Adam: Country House Design, Decoration, & the Art of Elegance, New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications, 2017. Steven Parissien, Adam Style, Washington, D.C.: Preservation Press, 1992. Alistair Rowan, Robert Adam, London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1988. Alistair Rowan, Bob the Roman: heroic antiquity and the architecture of Robert Adam, London: The Soane Gallery, 2003. The Georgian Group, December 2020

Anne Rykwert and Joseph Rykwert, The Brothers Adam : The Men and the Style, London: Collins, 1985. John Swarbrick, Robert Adam & his brothers, their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture, London: B. T. Batsford, 1916. Colin Thom, ed., Robert Adam and his brothers: new light on Britain’s leading architectural family, Georgian Group symposium 2015, Swindon: Historic England, 2019

JOHN SOANE Arthur T. Bolton, The works of Sir John Soane, London, 1924. Oliver Bradbury, Sir John Soane’s Influence on Architecture from 1791: An Enduring Legacy, London: Routledge, 2015. Gillian Darley, John Soane: An Accidental Romantic, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Ptolemy Dean, Sir John Soane and London, London, 2006. Ptolemy Dean, Sir John Soane and the country estate, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018. Thomas Leverton Donaldson, A review of the professional life of Sir John Soane … with some remarks on his genius and productions, London, 1837. Dorothy Stroud, Sir John Soane, Architect, London: Faber, 1984. David Watkin, Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures, Cambridge, 1996.