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  • Arnold-Forster, Kate.
ISBN
  • 0112905161
  • 9780112905165
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London : H.M.S.O., 1993.
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  • Arnold-Forster, Kate
  • Great Britain. Museums and Galleries Commission
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  • 0112905161
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London, H.M.S.O., 1993.
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Three centuries of Russian music : a guide for the Museum's 90th anniversary / the Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture ; [text of guide prepared by ... V.M. Zarudko, G.P. Sakharova, and E.B. Sigeikina].
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  • Gosudarstvennyĭ tsentranyĭ muzeĭ muzykalnoĭ kultury imeni M.I. Glinki
ISBN
  • 5896520166 (pbk.)
  • 9785896520160 (pbk.)
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Moscow : Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture, 2002.
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  • Baker, Sarah, 1977-
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  • 9781317335504 (ebk)
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1st
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London : Routledge, 2017.
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  • Wright, Christopher, 1945-
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  • 090597414X
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, c1983.
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  • 9786158037730
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[Budapest] : Strobl Alajos Memorial Place Foundation, [2018]
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Author
  • Harris, Leo J.,
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  • 83-7656-005-0
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London, England : Versita, Versita Limited, 2013.
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  • Renshaw, Corinne
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  • Wright, Christopher, 1945-
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  • 090597414X
  • 9780905974149
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[Newcastle-upon-Tyne] : Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, c1983.
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The new, complete, and universal history, description, and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and the parts adjacent. Including not only all the parishes with in the bills of mortality, but likewise the towns, villages, palaces, seats, and country, to the extent of above twenty miles round; with all the late improvements and alterations. Containing, I. A new, complete, accurate and circumstantial account of the origin of London: with a view of its progressive improvements, from its very first foundation to its present flourishing state, and amazing extent. II. A genuine description of its antiquities, from the most remote periods of authentic intelligence. III. A full and particular account of its constitution and government, ecclesiastical, civil, and military: its charters, laws, customs, privileges, immunities, commerce, trade, manufactures; its astonishing power and influence, foreign and domestic. IV. A new survey and description of the several wards, parishes, precincts, liberties, squares, streets, avenues, churches, chapels, meetings, palaces, Parliament-houses, courts of law, Inns of Court, noblemen's houses, halls, hospitals, colleges, alms-houses, schools, museums, and other remarkable buildings, with their eminent pictures, &c. public and private. V. An authentic history of the several incorporated companies of merchants and traders; their origin, institution, constitution, peculiar laws, rights, privileges; with their coats of arms accurately engraved. VI. A satisfactory account of the several charitable foundations, and benevolent institutions in the metropolis and its invirons. VII. A great and rich variety of new entertaining anecdotes, relative to the transactions of such persons who have more particularly distinguished themselves in a political, magisterial, military, marine, commercial, ecclesiastical, or literary capacity. VIII. A comprehensive, entertaining, and useful view of the progress of the learned and ingenious, the gradual improvement of literature, the ancient and present state of the arts, sciences, and belles lettres, the encouragement given to painting, music, history, oratory, and the fine arts in general; survey of the public amusements, amd most remarkable places of entertainment, with critical remarks on their beauties, blemishes, and tendencies. IX. An account of the ancient and present state of St. Paul's Cathedral, the curiosities of the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, the Monument, British Museum, Royal Exchange, account of the Bank, Adelphi Buildings, bridges, the new public offices lately erected where Somerset-House stood, &c. &c. X. Great variety of curious comparisons between this great metropolis and the principal cities in the universe. XI. An account of the mineral waters, springs, vegetables, fossils, &c. found in London and its vicinity. XII. A description of the most remarkable towns, villages, palaces, noblemen and gentlemen's seats, and other buildings, with the country in general, &c. which surround and ornament this opulent and superb metropolis for the extent of about twenty miles. Comprizing, in the most accurate, comprehensive, and clear manner, a full and satisfactory account of all that relates to this important metropolis, and surrounding country, which can excite the attention, or gratify the desire of the curious. The great number (upwards of one hundred) of copper-plates with which this work will be embellished in a superior stile, exhibit architectural, perspective, antique, and rural views, &c. of the churches, chapels, palaces, gates, antiquities, ruins, hospitals, bridges, landscapes, beautiful prospects, seats, plans, maps, surveys, &c. &c. executed by Messrs. Page, Peltro, Wale, Dod, Thornton, Pollard, Lodge, Royce, Roberts, Wooding, Carey, Hogg, Taylor, Rennoldson, Conder, Noble, Bonner, Golder, Morris, Grainger, Myers, Smith, Sparrow, Clowes, &c. This work is not only important to every British individual, as it respects the supreme seat of legislation, the center of commerce, and the key of the powerful empire of which he is a member, but is likewise interesting to mankind in general, since it describes all that relates to the first city upon the face of the globe, which has a political or commercial interest with every polished or trading company in the universe. Comprehending every circumstance worthy of notice in former writers on the subject, ancient and modern; particularly Stowe, Maitland, Merchant, Entick, and every other author who has either written respecting the city of London, &c. in general, or who has treated only on particular parts of the metropolis, or its invirons / Written and compiled from authentic records and other genuine information, by a society of gentlemen, the whole revised, corrected, and improved, by William Thornton, Esq. assisted by George Smith, L.L.D. - the Rev. Alex. Townsend, M.A. and other gentlemen.
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London : Printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's-Arms, no. 16, Pater-noster-Row, and sold by all booksellers in Great Britain, Ireland, France, America, East and West Indies, &c. [1793?]
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