Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott

by Gavin Stamp

George Gilbert Scott was the most prolific and most famous of Victorian architects. For many, however, blinded by prejudice to the merits of Victorian architecture and the Gothic Revival, he was the most notorious. The rehabilitation of his reputation after a century of abuse is symbolised, above all, by the magnificent restoration of one of his best-known buildings (once seriously threatened with demolition), the hotel at St Pancras Station in London...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781311242
• ISBN13: 9781781311240
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.6" x 11.3"