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Synopsis
Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint’s best-selling book on Shaw and his work—hailed in its original version as “a masterpiece among architectural biographies” by the Evening Standard—features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned.
“Outstanding. . . . A most readable biography as well as a scholarly assessment of Shaw’s work.”—Adam Fergusson, Sunday Times (on the original edition)
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About the Author
Andrew Saint is the General Editor of The Survey of London and the author of The Image of the Architect (1983), Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post-War England (1987) and Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry (2007)
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- PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0300155263
- ISBN 13 9780300155266
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages488
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Richard Norman Shaw
Seller: PSBooks, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Red cloth with gilt, with bumped upper corner and dust jacket with light edgewear including small chips at top of spine. Interior crisp and clean. Seller Inventory # 003817
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Richard Norman Shaw
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Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010
ISBN 10: 0300155263
ISBN 13: 9780300155266
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. A red casebound book with the title in gilt lettering on the spine. There is a dust jacket with the title in green at the top of a color-pictorial spine. Pages: (5), vi-xiii, (1), 1-498. Profusely illustrated with a healthy mix of both color and black-and-white illustrations. "Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard--features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned." Contents are as follows: 1. Apprenticeship -- Dedication and Pupillage -- Travels -- Street's Office -- First Designs -- 2. South and North -- Origins of Old English -- Nesfield and Shaw -- Yorkshire -- Cragside -- 3. The Country House -- Outside -- Inside -- Four Houses -- 4. The Pattern of Practice -- Queen Anne -- The RA Drawaings -- The Customers -- The Painters' Houses -- Builders -- Concrete -- Furniture -- Home and Health -- The Office -- 5. Turning Point -- Illness -- Albert Hall Mansions -- Bedford Park -- Flete -- Crisis -- 6. The Town House and the Path to Classicism -- The London House -- Commerce and Reconstruction in the 1880s -- T he Home and its Dwelling Rooms' -- Two Commissions -- 7. The Church -- Framework -- Fittings -- All Saints' Leek -- 8. The 1890s -- Eminence -- RA or RIBA? -- Shaw and the Arts and Crafts Movement -- Home and Habits -- Jobs of the 1890s -- 9. Improving the Cities -- London -- Liverpool -- The Quadrant -- The Quietus -- Catalogue of Executed Work -- 1. Buildings, By Date -- 2. Miscellaneous Jobs -- 3. Gazetteer. VG+/VG+: Exlibrary book. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp on back pasted end page. Stamp on top text block. Seller Inventory # 203199
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Richard Norman Shaw (The Association of Human Rights Institutes series).
Seller: Wissenschaftl. Antiquariat Th. Haker e.K, Klettgau, Germany
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Hardcover with dustjacket. Condition: Sehr gut. Rev. ed. 498 p. Mild wear to edges of jacket. ISBN: 9780300155266 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2543. Seller Inventory # 82460
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