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East Sussex County Council, Published 1977. Wraps, 12 pp.; oblong, 21 x 30 cm; illustrated with hand-drawn black-and-white views.
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In Very Good condition. Yellow illustrated paper covers with light bumping and creasing to edges and mild shelf wear. Staple bound, binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A pedestrian's walking guide to the architecture of Burtons' St. Leonards, with the author's own text and pen-and-ink drawings. St. Leonards-on-Sea was founded in 1828 by James Burton, the most prolific speculative builder of Georgian London (Bloomsbury and the Regent's Park terraces), as one of England's earliest purpose-built planned seaside resorts; the foundation stone of its centerpiece, the Royal Victoria Hotel, was laid in March 1828. Burton's son Decimus Burton, the celebrated Regency architect (the Wellington Arch and Hyde Park screen, the Palm House at Kew, and villas in Regent's Park), assisted his father and from 1850 carried out a second phase of building (the Mount, the Uplands, and North Lodge). The guide illustrates and discusses the Royal Victoria Hotel, the Masonic Hall, Crown House (prefabricated in Regent's Park and brought round by sea), the Burton family monument, and other buildings, with notes on Burton's classical Greek and Roman town planning. One of East Sussex County Council's Town Walks series, following Lewes, Rye, Winchelsea, and Battle.