The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture

"The story of the decline of the British aristocracy is relatively well documented. But we are far less informed about the new plutocracy who challenged it in the years that led to the belle epoque of King Edward VII: where its members resided, what they spent their money on and how they lived down, or lived up to, their parvenu wealth. THE RISE OF THE NOUVEAUX RICHES, a clever, scholarly, witty and abundantly illustrated book by J. Mordaunt Crook, the foremost British architectural historian of his generation, addresses these questions with impressive authority and elegant erudition.J. Mordaunt Crook is the author of 'The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture' with ISBN 9780719560507 and ISBN 0719560500.