The Buildings of : London. The cities of London and Westminster, Volume 12, , Penguin, 1973, 0140710124, 9780140710120, . .

The Ruthwell Cross and Other Remains of the Late Hannah Mary Wright ... With Brief Memoir of the Author, Hannah Mary Wright, 1873, Religious poetry, English, 160 pages. .

Old Cheshire churches a survey of their history, fabric and furniture, with records of the older monuments, Raymond Richards, Jul 12, 1973, Architecture, 905 pages. .

A Dictionary of English Folklore , Jacqueline Simpson, Stephen Roud, 2000, Social Science, 411 pages. An entertaining reference on English folklore features 1250 entries that shed new light on the colorful history behind the holidays, legends, superstitions, traditions ....

Portrait of North Yorkshire , Colin Speakman, 1986, History, 240 pages. .

Buildings of England, The, Volume 27 , , 1964, Architecture, . .

Yorkshire , George Bernard Wood, 1967, Travel, 240 pages. .

Surrey , , Nikolaus Pevsner, 1971, Architecture, 608 pages. .

An enquiry into industrial art in England , Nikolaus Pevsner, 1937, Art, 234 pages. .

Houses of to-day a practical guide, Colin Troughton Penn, 1954, Architecture, 184 pages. .

Shropshire , Nikolaus Pevsner, 1958, Sports & Recreation, 368 pages. .

Worcestershire , Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner, 2007, Architecture, 846 pages. This expanded and updated guide to the buildings of Worcestershire encompasses the entire county, from the dramatic Malvern Hills through the Severn Valley to the fringes of ....

Pevsner The Early Life: Germany and Art, Stephen Games, Jun 2, 2010, Architecture, 250 pages. .

North Lancashire, Volume 32; Volume 37 , Nikolaus Pevsner, 1984, Architecture, 320 pages. .

A handful of history , John Roger Scott Whiting, 1978, Games, 201 pages. .

British Regional Geology East Anglia and adjoining areas, Charles Panzetta Chatwin, 1961, , 100 pages. .

Pioneers of Modern Design From William Morris to , Nikolaus Pevsner, 2005, Art, 192 pages. This expanded edition of a classic study of the history of modern design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner .... The Pevsner Architectural Guides are a series of guide books to the architecture of the British Isles. Begun in the 1940s by art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the 46 volumes of the original Buildings of England series were published between 1951 and 1974. The series was then extended to Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the late 1970s. The Scottish and Irish guides were incomplete as of summer 2012. Most of the English volumes have had second editions, chiefly by other authors.

After moving to Great Britain from his native Germany 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 , founder of , 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 32 of the books himself and ten with collaborators, with a further four of the original series written by others. Since his death, work has continued on the series, with several volumes now in their third revision.

The books are compact and intended to meet the needs of both specialists and the general reader. Each contains an extensive introduction to the architectural history and styles of the area, followed by a town-by-town — and in the case of larger settlements, street-by-street — account of individual buildings. The guides offer both detailed coverage of the most notable buildings and notes on lesser-known and vernacular buildings; all building types are covered but there is a particular emphasis on churches and public buildings. Each volume has a central section with several dozen pages of photographs, originally in black and white, though colour illustrations have featured in revised volumes published by Yale University Press since 2003.

The list below is of the volumes that were in print in 2006 (updated to include City Guides in print at October 2010, and new volumes released 2011–12). The original volumes are gradually being replaced with new editions in a larger format, updated to reflect architectural-history scholarship since the first publications of the guides and to include significant new buildings. The dates after each title are of the first publication and of any revised edition. All are now published by Yale University Press. The volumes for Bath, Birmingham, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Hull, Leeds, , , Newcastle and Gateshead, Nottingham and Sheffield are part of the parallel "Pevsner City Guides" series, a more richly illustrated paperback format.

The first of the paperback City Guides, covering the churches of the City of London, appeared in 1998. It was followed by a new format with integrated colour illustrations, beginning with Manchester in 2001. In most cases the City Guides have preceded a revision of the county volume in which they are located, although they do go into greater detail than the county volumes and have more illustrations. Thus the Birmingham guide completely supersedes the central Birmingham section of the Warwickshire volume, which is now over forty years old. Two of the guides, covering Newcastle and Gateshead and Hull, are more recent than the hardback editions for the surrounding counties, and therefore update as well as expand the coverage of those cities.

The series continued under Pevsner's founding editorship into Scotland. The format is largely similar; however, only Lothian was published in the original small volume style. One noticeable difference in some of the Scottish series is a greater subdivision of the main gazetteer (e.g. in Argyll and Bute mainland Argyll has separate gazetteer from its islands, and Bute similarly is treated on its own). Unlike The Buildings of England, none of the Scottish volumes adopts a hierarchy of ecclesiastical buildings, instead grouping them together. As with the English revisions, several of the volumes are the work of many contributors. As of late 2012, the series is three volumes from completion. The series has also been extended to Wales. With the issue of Gwynedd coverage of Wales is complete, although the initial survey has taken seven years longer than Pevsner's first complete survey of England. Only Powys was published in the original small volume style. Work is under way on a revised edition of this book, to be published in 2013.

Book Description: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1957. Paperback. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Clean copy with no inscriptions, d/w is chipped and, although complete, has 2" closed tear at bottom of spine. Bookseller Inventory # 22969

Book Description: London: Penguin Books - 1st Edition, 1952. Presumed FIRST EDITION. Pb. vg copy. 7" x 4.25". Soft card cover slightly worn to edges, with minor fading to spine. Price on front cover (6/-). 279pgs. Tight leaves. Slight browning to page edges. With b/w illustrations. Top two inches of outer front hinge split. Bookseller Inventory # 68730

Book Description: Penguin Books Ltd: Harmondsworth, Middx, 1952. Soft. Book Condition: Good- in fair dust jacket. 64pp photographs. (illustrator). 12mo, 7". Good- in fair dust jacket. DJ lightly marked, darkened and a little chipped to spine head and tail. A few small closed tears around edges, with some small chunks missing around the edges. Page browned internally.494pp. Bookseller Inventory # 021311

Book Description: Penguin Books Ltd., London, 1973. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Third edition. Nice copy of Pevsner's classic guide, extensively revised and illustrated with a substantial central section of B&W photos. Book has black cloth boards with only slight wear. Inside isa very clean. Dustjacket has minor edge wesar but very clean. 756 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 006825

Book Description: PENGUIN, 1952. Paperback. Book Condition: Fair. Despatched from UK within 24hrs. Published by PENGUIN in 1952. Paperback. Number of pages: 496. Condition: Acceptable. Reading copy ONLY With Index. With photographs. Wear to head and tail of spine. Foxing throughout. Fade marks to cover. Foxing to page edges and cover. Bookseller Inventory # 8642492

Book Description: Penguin Books, London, 1973. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third Edition. 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,which has just a little light rubbing and wear to outer edges of the dust-jacket.Price clipped and this copy has NO previous ownership inscriptions present,although top front endpaper has been cut.Clean copy internally.Well illustrated work with usual plates and maps etc.8vo 756pp Third Edition. Bookseller Inventory # 64702

Book Description: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1952. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. BE 6, a first edition of Pevsner's popular architectural guide to London. Thin paper jacket with narrow piece missing across half top front, spine, and half top back, minor rubbing & chipping at other edges, spine dulled, pages tanning, no inscriptions, binding sound. Bookseller Inventory # 004224

Book Description: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1952. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition (pb. original). Seminal architectural history/gazetteer. First Edn., 1952; 496pp.; illus. bw. map/drawings/photos. Faint creasing/light foxing to spine, but covers very clean/crisp/bright; top edge tanned; fore/bottom edges slightly tanned; page edges lightly foxed, but text fresh, pages clean/crisp/bright; dj. has very small closed tear (approx. 4mm) to tail of slightly sunned spine, but dj. clean/quite crisp/very bright. No inscriptions. Lightweight item, hence overseas customers will have shipping charges reduced subsequent to ordering. VG- in VG- unclipped dj. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Vintage Paperback. Bookseller Inventory # 17849 London 2: South is a uniquely comprehensive guide to the twelve southern boroughs. Its riverside buildings range from the royal splendours of Hampton Court and Greenwich and the Georgian delights of Richmond, to the monuments of Victorian commerce in Lambeth and Southwark. But the book also charts lesser known suburbs, from former villages such as Clapham to still rural, Edwardian Chislehurst, as well as the results of twentieth-century planners' dreams from Roehampton to Thamesmead. Full accounts are given of London landmarks as diverse as Southwark Cathedral, Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery and the arts complex of the South Bank. The outer boroughs include diverse former country houses - Edward IV's Eltham Palace, the Jacobean Charlton House, and the Palladian Marble Hill. The rich Victorian churches and school buildings are covered in detail, as are the exceptional structures of Kew Gardens.

The books are particularly useful as a reference guide to look up particular streets and buildings. However, the books always give an overall reference to the particular architectual trends of the period and how these manifested themselves in the buildings of the time. Note, individual streets are rarely derided for their architecture. However, the authors do venture into architectual criticism ocassionally. (As when they lament the monotony of the white stucco Italianate facades in mid-Victorian South Kensington)

Since buying these books, I have moved to New York City. Readers interested in a similar series on New York can look to the Monacelli Press Series by Robert Stern: "New York 1880," "New York 1900," "New York 1930," and "New York 1960." This series, however, concentrates on specific periods and details existing buildings as well as buildings since removed.

Buildings in practically every street in the City are covered, in many cases many of the buildings in a given street are described, with interesting features pointed out.The book covers all architectural periods.If you look at every building described in this book it would take you weeks of long days walking around the city.But if you are interested in architecture it would be worth it (I know, I have done it).Or just read the book, as the book has much history as the City is made up of buildings built over the centuries. 704 pages of excellence.

Most of us are aware of the Buildings of England series, and just how comprehensive they are. To cover all the buildings just in the six London volumes would take for ever, but there is another way. Try logging into Google Street View. That way you can view all these fine buildings, the exteriors anyway, without having to leave your armchair. Not quite the same as seeing them in the flesh but not a bad idea I hope you'll agree.

None of the reviews on this page relates to the volume to which they ostensibly belong and from which the reader is referred (London: South v. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England). When will Amazon realize that different volumes of a series are DIFFERENT BOOKS and that attaching the wrong review is seriously misleading ? No complaints about the reviews themselves, I ought to add -- just irrelevant and time-wasting for my purposes.

This guide opens up the treasures of London's most alluring quarter. At its core are , Parliament, and the palatial Government buildings of Whitehall, together with the great band of Royal Parks stretching westward toward Kensington. It also includes London's West End (Covent Garden, Soho, Mayfair and St James's) and the less well-known Belgravia and Pimlico. The architectural glories of Westminster Abbey are supplemented by details of its astonishing monuments, perhaps the greatest such collection in Europe. Buckingham Palace and its elder sister at St James's, the gorgeous riches of Theatreland and the stately parade of gentlemen's clubs in Pall Mall are all described in depth. Georgian houses large and small, the amazingly varied Victorian mansion blocks and workers' dwellings, and some post-war housing schemes are also comprehensively surveyed. Architectural developments are punctuated by Westminster's many statues and monuments, from Nelson's Column to Oscar Wilde. For each area there is a detailed gazetteer and brief introduction. A general introduction provides a historical and artistic overview. Numerous maps and plans, over 100 colour photographs, full indexes, and an illustrated glossary are also provided. This is the fifth of six Pevsner Architectural Guides volumes on London available in cloth. The area covered lies from Oxford Street in the north to the Thames at Pimlico in the south; and from Hyde Park and Belgravia in the west to Temple Bar in the east, namely "the greater part of the London that outsiders come to see." Bradley suggests conclusions that might be drawn by a visitor about the links between the built environment and the society that it serves or served: "the average person [whoever that is] ... obviously likes shopping and drinking a lot, and about a hundred years ago seems to have been obsessed with theatre-going. ... That the monarchy was not specially ambitious or rich would be a reasonable conclusion."

The introductory essays are good for providing a summary not only of the architectural history but also of the growth and development of the townscape. John Schofield co-writes the first phases, dealing with Westminster from prehistory to the Commonwealth. The innovatory hammerbeam roof in Westminster Hall and the fan vaulting of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey are assessed. (In the main part of the book, the Abbey's description occupies one hundred pages.) This long period of time covers nineteen pages, but another nineteen are then taken up with the era to around 1815. Bradley argues that the Restoration was to Westminster what the Great Fire was to the City, in architectural terms "a great watershed". Here Bradley comes into his own looking at the development of Westminster in this crucial period: houses, churches, theatres, government offices, clubs, and shops; baroque, Palladian, rococo, and neoclassical; Wren, Vanbrugh, Hawksmoor, Campbell, Gibbs, Kent, Stuart, Adams, and Chambers.

Details of metropolitan improvements, 1815-40, take up eight pages, and then twenty-five are devoted to Victorian and Edwardian Westminster. Bradley admits to narrative difficulties here, for "too much starts happening at once ... fresh novelties in style or technique seem always to be arriving, like trains drawing into one of the giant new railway termini." Westminster between the wars (seven pages), and the period to 1975 (nine pages) follow. Thereafter, the vexed issues of planning and conservation enter the picture, and Bradley shows how the successful opposition to the Covent Garden regeneration plan of the late 1960s meant that, "the idea that an `obsolete' district should be replaced wholesale was killed at a stroke." He concludes that, "on present form it is unlikely that a user of this book in twenty years' time will find many new landmarks, or miss many old ones - a claim that could not be made for the City of London or the East End. This stasis, which will seem timid to many, undoubtedly reflects the affection in which `Visitor's London' is held in the wider world."

Having dealt with the introduction, the meat of the book is split into eleven sections, each with its own opening appraisal. That for Soho, for instance, starts by stating that, "Really fine buildings are not common in Soho, and yet its layered history and teeming life make its labyrinthine streets specially intriguing." The section on Regent Street proposes that "'s splendid Via Triumphalis is quite simply the greatest piece of town planning London has ever seen." Bradley draws an ingenious comparison of the scheme: "In the complete plan Regent Street is, as it were, the trunk of the tree. Its root was Carlton House, the top of the verdure, the villas and the terraces of the park." However, the Westminster volume only sees us climbing halfway up the trunk to Oxford Circus: readers wanting more need to refer to the third volume on north-west London.

History too is given of some prominent structures that have now disappeared, such as the Palace of Whitehall, and the discussions are never divorced from their historical, cultural, or artistic context, a notable feature that prevents the Pevsner series from being - for the historian, at any rate - as dry as dust. Bradley only occasionally is forthcoming with an egregious comment, which makes those he does make stand out all the more; for example, describing the London Hilton on Park Lane as "an insultingly mediocre design for such a prominent site."

In terms of coverage and scope and detail, this is a veritable masterpiece, and one feels that it should be given five stars for its magnificence, but such reference books are never `lovable', and so I feel I must, alas, only give four stars according to Amazon's own star-system terms: I like it - a lot! Read more › http://edufb.net/782.pdf http://edufb.net/555.pdf http://edufb.net/1147.pdf http://edufb.net/249.pdf http://edufb.net/1150.pdf http://edufb.net/1191.pdf http://edufb.net/724.pdf http://edufb.net/925.pdf http://edufb.net/11.pdf http://edufb.net/1095.pdf http://edufb.net/16.pdf