Excerpt from A History of Architecture in London, Arranged to Illustrate the Course of Architecture in England Until 1800 Romanesque merging into transitional architecture, and so on to Gothic, in various developments of which the English showed themselves to be masters. Thence we are introduced to the Renaissance, which, springing up in Italy, as the Romanesque had first sprung, in the course of a few years led to such wonderful changes in architecture, simultaneously with upheavals as great in painting, science, and literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.