Wren's 'Tracts' on Architecture and Other Writings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780521044240
Subjects: Individual architects; Theory of architecture; Criticism; Individual Architect; Architecture / General; Architecture / Individual Architect; Architecture : Criticism; Wren, Christopher, --Sir, --1632-1723--Critic; Wren, Christopher,--Sir,--1632-1723--Criticism and interpretation; General; Architecture
First sentence: To have a right Idea of London of old, it will be necessary to consider the State of the Britains, at the Time the Romans made their first Descent on the Island; and surely we cannot reasonably think them so barbarous, at least in that Age, (and the Accounts before that, are too fabulous) as is commonly believ'd.