Identifier: pictorialhandboo00weal (find matches)
Title: The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Weale, John, 1791-1862
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Publisher: London : Henry G. Bohn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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not, indeed, exactly for club-houses—perhaps, because so applied, it would look too much like the directimitation of a successful and too well-known model—but for various otherbuildings, in the provinces as well as in the metropolis; and its influencehas likewise manifested itself in some of our recent street architecture,although longo intervallo in regard to taste. The Travellers has, more-over, obtained a distinction which has not fallen to the lot of any other con-temporary structure, it having been the subject of an elegant volume of archi-tectural illustrations (published by Mr. Weale*); a circumstance that has,perhaps, contributed to diffuse an acquaintance with the genius and resources ofthat so-called Italian-palazzo style, all the chief features and details of thatclub-house being there shown at large. A similar office has not been pcr- * About 1000 members. For a list of names, see Weales publication,subscription annually, 10Z. 10s. Entrance fee, 21/.d CLUB-HOUSES. 207
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PLAN OF TRAVELLERS CLUB-HOUSE. )rmed for any other edifice of the same class, notwithstanding that some ofhem are more ambitious in their architecture and their internal decorations;et, surely it would be a very trifling matter for a Club to publish the plans, &c.f their building, at their own cost, even were copies intended only as presents) their friends. Stronger reasons than pecuniary—for they are slight, indeedthere may be for this not being done, and foremost among them, perhaps,; indifference*. Of the three club-houses forming the insula or block of o=nTheuTrav<Lllers had a very narrow escape from destruction on the 24th of last October850), when a fire broke out in the billiard-rooms, and did great damage to that part of theructure, which was, by the by, an after-thought and addition to the original building, but no means an improvement upon the first design, for it greatly impaired the beauty of the o 3 298 LONDON. buildings on the west side of Carlton Place, the Ref

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