VAUXHALL GARDENS

With its spacious rotunda, tree-lined walkways, and acclaimed ornamentation, Vauxhall hosted a regular series of concerts at the time the 2nd edition of Encyclopdia Britannica was published (177784). The following article is from part 10 of the Public buildings section of the unsigned article London. The text is presented in modern typography for ease in reading but otherwise retains the original spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and italicsincluding typographical errors. Vauxhall Gardens See also the current Britannica articles Vauxhall and Lambeth. For similar texts from early editions of the encyclopdia, see BTW: London Classics.