Dean, David.

English Shop Fronts from Contemporary Source Books 1792-1840.

London, Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1970. 21.8 cm x 27.8 cm. Black and white fronispiece. Unpaginated. With 77 full page illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to page edges. Pages very lightly tanned. Otherwise interior pages clean and unmarked.

Includes for example the following designs: “Designs for Shop Fronts” by I.& J. Taylor 1792 / “A Series of Designs for Shop Fronts” by J. Young 1828 / “Shop Fronts and Exterior Doors” by T. King n.d. / “On the Construction and Decoration of the Shop Fronts of London” by N. Whittock 1840 etc.

In medieval and Tudor times the shop was the market stall and the hawker’s tray. Such permanent shops as existed were normally dwelling places where the traders lived ‘over’ or ‘behind’ the shop. Part of the street facade of their homes comprised heavy hinged boarding, divided laterally across the middle, so that the upper half could be raised during trading hours to form an overhang for the protection of the stock.

This primitive boarding became replaced towards the end of the seventeenth century by windows glazed with bottle glass but this was superseded in the coming of the eighteenth century by larger panes of clear glass. These mark out the way of the shops today.

The present book contains plates from five contemporary books on the subject and they show the evolution of style in the half century from 1792 to 1840. (From cover notes)

• Keywords: Architectural Drawing · Architecture · Building · English Architecture · English Design · English History · English History Collection · English History of Architecture · History of Architecture · Illustrated · Illustrated Books · Library & Collection Building
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200331AB