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Author: (Busby) Bingham, Neil
Title: C.A.Busby. The Regency architect of Brighton & Hove.
Publication: (London), RIBA Heinz Gallery 1991.
Price: Sold
Reference: 10301
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Oblong 4to. 106pp, 12 colour and 75 other photo ills. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Jill Allibone’s copy, with acquisition date 27 Jul 1993, and presentation inscription to her by the author.
Exhibition catalogue based on a collection of previously unrecorded drawings by the architect Charles Augustin Busby (1786-1834), acquired by RIBA in 1986. Busby and his architectural partner Amon Henry Wilds made a notable contribution to the architecture of Brighton and Hove in the 1820s, and Busby is also well-known as the author of two early nineteenth century architectural pattern books.