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The Buildings of England: London. The cities of London and Westminster, Volume 12, Nikolaus Pevsner, 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 , Ian Nairn, 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 Walter Gropius, 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 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 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, Liverpool, Manchester, 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