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Author: (Adam) Fleming, John
Title: Robert Adam and his circle in Edinburgh and Rome.
Publication: London, John Murray 1978.
Price: £35
Reference: 10053
Full Description
8vo. xxi+393+(1)pp, 93 photo ills on plates. Publisher's cloth, in dustwrapper. Jill Allibone's copy, with her bookplate and acquisition date Christmas 1981.
A study of Robert Adam's early life, his tour to Italy with his brother James in 1755-7, and the beginnings of his architectural practice in London from 1758 to 1763. It provides in passing much helpful information about Robert Adam's father William Adam, and about Robert and James Adam's dealings with Piranesi, Clérisseau, and so on. A reissue of the 1962 first edition, with a brief added author's note.