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SOURCE: Owen Jones. The Grammar of ornament (London, 1856), pl. XC

NOTES: With the completion of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's London sewer, the water in the River Thames was much improved and a floating swimming bath with iron superstructure was built, moored just above Charing Cross railway bridge, and opened in early July 1875. The engineers for the Floating Swimming Baths Company were Whitaker & Perrett and the architects of the superstructure were Driver & Rew. In October of 1876 machinery for freezing the river water was added so that the floating baths could become the Floating Glaciarium ice skating rink during the winter months. In 1885 the floating baths were purchased by the South Eastern Railway Company and scrapped.

NOTES: The Egophile is a large scrapbook containing a mixture of personal notes, correspondence, press cuttings, from the national, local, and international press and the architectural press collected by Denys Lasdun during the early part of his architectural life. This typescript dates from the CIAM 7 Conference held at Bergamo in 1949.

SOURCE: John Shute. The First and chief groundes of architecture (London, 1563), title page

SOURCE: Batty and Thomas Langley. The Builder's jewel (London, 1741), frontispiece and title page

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. The Architecture of Andrea Palladio in Four Books (London, 1715), ed. Giacomo Leoni, subscribers' list [recto] NOTES: This English edition of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the first Italian edition, published in 1570 and includes additional 'notes and observations' by Inigo Jones.

SOURCE: Andrea Palladio. The Architecture of Andrea Palladio in Four Books (London, 1715), ed. Giacomo Leoni, subscribers' list [verso] NOTES: This English edition of Palladio's I Quattro libri dell'architettura contains plates copied from the first Italian edition, published in 1570 and includes additional 'notes and observations' by Inigo Jones.