Pevsner Nikolas (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Saffron cloth gilt on a green field, DW, tall 12mo., 414 pages, 105 monochrome illustrations. A fine copy in a lightly edgeworn, near fine DW, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 306pp plus extensive central section of monochrome plate illustrations. 12mo. Ex lending library with usual markings on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. The dust jacket is protected in a Brodart-style wrapper, which has been adhered to the boards. A much nice and cleaner volume than its ex-library status implies.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 27 pp.; + unnumbered b/w plates, 22 cm.: 8vo.: Tanning/scuffing to wraps, bright unmarked interior, sound binding: Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. 2nd Rev. Edn. 696pp. Illus. Rear of wraper sunned. Size: Cr.8vo.

Second 4to, cloth. 152 pp, 137 b/w illustrations, index. Arntzen/Rainwater I256, citing editions from 1936 (the first) through 1964. The Museum of Modern Art edition (the second) was initially published in 1949 and reprinted at least through 1957. Lucas, p. 52, cites the 1964 Penguin edition. Very good in a dj with spotting and a skinned patch on the back panel.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Vintage architectural magazine in poor condition - some loose pages & a damaged spine. Magazine published on the eve of the Second World War with a fabulous feature on The Homewood, by Patrick Gwynne and Wells Coates, School in Northwich by J.L. Martin and Sadie Speight.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Superb period special issue of the Architectural Review Magazine from 1969 dedicated to the recent launch of the iconic ocean-going liner, the QE2. Magazine is in good condition overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mixed editions. A Complete set of the Buildings of England series in 51 volumes. Original black rexine hardcovers or cloth, gilt. Photographic plate sections. One or two other volumes have minor wear to the top edges of the wrappers. Contents clean. Generally near fine in near fine dust wrappers. 27 volumes are in the original smaller format, 24 volumes are the latest revised editions in the taller format After moving to Great Britain from his native Germany as a refugee in the 1930s, Nikolaus Pevsner found that the study of architectural history had little status in academic circles, and that the amount of information available, especially to travellers wanting to inform themselves about the architecture of a particular district, was limited. He conceived a project to write a series of comprehensive county guides to rectify this, and gained the backing of Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, for whom he had written his Outline of European Architecture. Work on the series began in 1945. Lane employed two part-time assistants, both German refugee art historians, who prepared notes for Pevsner from published sources. Pevsner spent the academic holidays touring the country to make personal observations and to carry out local research, before writing up the finished volumes. The first volume was published in 1951. Pevsner wrote thirty-two of the books himself and ten with collaborators, with a further four of the original series written by others.