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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2006
- ISSN
- 2059-7525
- eISSN
- 0307-4722
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0307472200014486
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
. art libraries , 31/2 2006 journal Pevsner developed the concept for a series of Pevsner architectural guides. New Haven: architectural guides based on Dehio's five-volume Yale University Press Handbuch derdeutschen Kunstdenkmaler. H e talked about the idea with his friend Allen Lane, the Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and others director of Penguin Books, proposing a similar layout and brevity of entries. Lane was taken with A complete list of titles and ordering the concept, and thus began their long and fruitful relationship. Pevsner started work on the project in information for volumes in the 1947, and the first of the books (on Cornwall) was Buildings of England, City guides and published in 1951. Th e final volume (on related series is given on the Yale Staffordshire) appeared in 1974. All the guides begin with a simple two-page map, University Press website at followed by a foreword and an introduction by http ://y alepress .y ale. edu/yupbooks/ Pevsner, the guide itself, and indexes to plates, artists and (less fully and consistently in the earliest volumes) places. Black-and-white photographs and Mention the name Pevsner to any architecture simple maps illustrate the texts. All the volumes librarian or architectural historian and you'll
Journal
Art Libraries Journal – Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 6, 2016