Building the Bank of England : money, architecture, society, 1694-1942
By: Daniel M. Abramson.
Publisher: New Haven
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Yale University Press
Language: eng
Subjects: Bank of England -- Buildings.; Bank of England -- History.; Bank buildings -- England -- London.; Architecture and society -- England -- History.; London (England) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Wilderness years in Grocers' Hall, 1694-1734; value: Corporate virtue : George Sampson's Bank of England, 1731-34; value: Making the market : Robert Taylor's Bank of England, 1764-88; value: "Shadows upon the stone" : John Soane's early bank halls, 1788-99; value: The spectacle of finance : nationalism, urbanism, and bureaucracy, 1793-1808; value: Soane's finale and the Bank of England in his career, 1814-1833; value: Myth and modernity : Herbert Baker's Bank of England, 1921-1942; value: Architecture and history : learning from the Bank of England.