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The Buildings of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: A Sixtieth Anniversary Catalogue of the Pevsner Architectural Guides

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Editor: James Mackay
Date: 2012
ISBN: 9780955839559
Type: PCS Publication
Pages: 96
Medium: Paperback
Series: Buildings of England
Focus: Books

This book represents the culmination of substantial detective work by James Mackay who has been comparing editions, checking stocklists, delving into the Bristol archive, and climbing the stacks of the Pearson archive at Rugby for quite a few years now, and the resultant book provides a detailed follow-up to the earlier work of Bridget Cherry in classifying the Buildings of England series. The details of every edition, placed in a chronological structure, provide an opportunity to see how Penguin’s publishing policy developed, at times planned but often in a noticeably haphazard way. The book includes all volumes published to date by both Penguin and Yale University Press, the series having been transferred to the latter in 2002.

The book also contains an extract from Susie Harries' recent biography, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life and a Society 'first' a specially translated Afterword to Pevsner's earliest publication, Leipziger Barock. In this piece Ernst Ullmann, formerly Director of the Institute for Art History at the University of Leipzig, considered the place of Pevsner in the evolution of art history in Germany and summarised Pevsner's later work. He concluded by assessing Pevsner's contribution to the understanding and appreciation of his native city. Leipziger Barock itself has not been translated and this Afterword has been specially translated for the Society by Catherine Mackay.

The book is in the same format as the current volumes, 11.7 x 21.5 cms with numerous illustrations in colour

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