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Georgian Town Houses and their Details(Reprint)
Butterworth Architecture Library of Period Detailing
by Dan Cruickshank, Peter Cruickshank Wyld
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1996 by Architectural Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-1252-4, ISBN: 0-7506-1252-5

"... 1750, 18 18 Langley, Batty and Thomas The Builder's Jewel : or, the Youth's Instructor, and Workman's Remembrancer. ... 19 1 4 Morris, Robert The Architectural Remembrancer: being a collection of New and Useful Designs of Ornamental ... London 1 739 Lectures on Architecture, Consisting of Rules founded upon Harmonic k and Arithmetical Proportions in Building. ... Second edition enlarged with the addition of sixteen copper plate ..."

The Secret History of Georgian London(Reprint)
How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
by Dan Cruickshank
Paperback, 672 Pages, Published 2010 by Windmill Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-952796-1, ISBN: 0-09-952796-0

"Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex industry was, in fact, a very powerful force indeed, and in The Secret History of Georgian London, Dan Cruickshank compellingly shows how it came to affect almost every aspect of life and cultu ..."

London's Sinful Secret(Reprint)
The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London's Georgian Age
by Dan Cruickshank
Hardcover, 672 Pages, Published 2010 by St. Martin's Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-65898-4, ISBN: 0-312-65898-2

"Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands. In London’s Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in Marylebone, to the squalid alleys around Char ..."

Brunel(Reprint)
The Man Who Built the World (Phoenix Press)
by Steven Brindle, Dan Cruickshank, Dan Brindle
Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2006 by Phoenix
ISBN-13: 978-0-7538-2125-1, ISBN: 0-7538-2125-7

"A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities. In his lifetime, Isambard Kingdom Brunel towered over his profession. Today, he remains the most famous engineer in history, the epitome of the volcanic creative forces which brought about the Industrial Revolution - and brought modern society into being. Brunel's extraordinary talents were drawn out by some rema ..."