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Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England

Product Description: This classic architectural survey of West Kent has been used by students and travelers for more than forty years. Now fully revised and expanded to include the great variety of buildings added to the landscape during that time, this indispensable guide offers fresh perspectives on major landmarks such as Ightham Mote, Sissinghurst, and Hever Castle...read more

By Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780300185096 | Yale Univ Pr, November 27, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This classic architectural survey of West Kent has been used by students and travelers for more than forty years.

Herefordshire

In this county on the borders of Wales is a rich medieval legacy, from tiny county churches with the distinctive wiry Norman sculpture of the 'Herefordshire school', to the inventive gothic of Abbey Dore and Hereford Cathedral.

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9780300125757 | Yale Univ Pr, May 29, 2012, cover price $85.00

9780300096095 | New edition (Yale Univ Pr, March 11, 1963), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In this county on the borders of Wales is a rich medieval legacy, from tiny county churches with the distinctive wiry Norman sculpture of the 'Herefordshire school', to the inventive gothic of Abbey Dore and Hereford Cathedral.

Outline of European Architecture

Product Description: One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner's lifetime, it continued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulating as it was back in the mid-twentieth century...read more

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9780140201093 | Penguin USA, June 1, 2050, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1942.

9780140135244, titled "An Outline of European Architecture" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1990), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1942.

Lancashire: North

Product Description: The landscapes of Lancashire range from the shores of Morecambe Bay and the wild Forest of Bowland in the north to the coastal flatlands and Pennine mill towns in the south. Lancaster, the historic county town, boasts some of the finest Georgian buildings in northern England, while Blackpool is unrivaled anywhere for spectacular seaside architecture...read more

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9780300126679 | Yale Univ Pr, May 5, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The landscapes of Lancashire range from the shores of Morecambe Bay and the wild Forest of Bowland in the north to the coastal flatlands and Pennine mill towns in the south.

The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture

Product Description: The definitions and terminology used in this book attempt to relate to the architectural terms used in professional practice.

By David Etherton, John Fleming and Hugh Honour

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9780140512410 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1991, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides information on the men and techniques that have influenced the development of architecture

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9781439508954 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The definitions and terminology used in this book attempt to relate to the architectural terms used in professional practice.

Worcestershire: The Buildings of England

Product Description: 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 the Cotswolds. Medieval Worcestershire is represented by the fine Gothic cathedral of Worcester, the splendid remains of the abbeys and priories, and the many parish churches with their rich inheritance of Norman work...read more

By Alan Brooks and Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780300112986 | Yale Univ Pr, August 28, 2007, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: 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 the Cotswolds.

Breve historia de la arquitectura europea/ Brief history of the European Architecture

By Nikolaus Pevsner

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9788420671260 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $65.95

Shropshire

Product Description: This fully-illustrated guide to Shropshire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer and includes a variety of helpful maps, plans, and indexes along with an illustrated glossary. The book is an invaluable reference work on the appealing and unspoiled county of Shropshire, where many historic towns, including Shrewsbury and Ludlow, are especially plentiful in Georgian and timber-framed buildings...read more

By John Newman, Nikolaus Pevsner, Gavin Watson (contributor), Michael Watson (contributor) and Roger White (contributor)

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9780300120837 | Yale Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This fully-illustrated guide to Shropshire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer and includes a variety of helpful maps, plans, and indexes along with an illustrated glossary.

The Isle of Wight

Product Description: This comprehensive and generously illustrated guide explores the beguiling buildings of the Isle of Wight. The island’s many towns, villages, and resorts are included in a detailed gazetteer, as are the charming villas and cottages ornes dotted around the spectacular coasts...read more

By David W. Lloyd and Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780300107333 | Yale Univ Pr, August 15, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This comprehensive and generously illustrated guide explores the beguiling buildings of the Isle of Wight.

Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West

Product Description: This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer. The great port city of Liverpool dominates, with its cathedrals, mighty commercial buildings and warehouses, and Georgian inner city...read more

By Nikolaus Pevsner, Richard Pollard and Joseph Sharples (contributor)

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9780300109108 | Yale Univ Pr, August 15, 2006, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-West Lancashire treats each city, town, and village in a detailed gazetteer.

North Pembrokeshire

Product Description: OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and bridleways...read more

By Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780319236239 | Map edition (Ordnance Survey, April 20, 2006), cover price $14.45 | About this edition: OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.

London 5: East

Product Description: Publication of this book, one of six devoted to the buildings of London, marks the completion of the long-awaited revision of the original Pevsner guides and brings the account of the capital’s buildings entirely up to date.This fascinating volume provides a historical introduction to a uniquely diverse area as well as a detailed gazetteer of individual buildings...read more

By Bridget Cherry, Pamela D. Greenwood (contributor), Charles Obrien, Nikolaus Pevsner, Malcolm Tucker (contributor) and Elizabeth Williamson (contributor)

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9780300107012 | Yale Univ Pr, April 10, 2005, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Publication of this book, one of six devoted to the buildings of London, marks the completion of the long-awaited revision of the original Pevsner guides and brings the account of the capital’s buildings entirely up to date.

Pioneers Of Modern Design: From William Morris To Walter Gropius

Product Description: One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner’s landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner’s original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner’s illuminating account of the roots of Modernism...read more

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9780300105711 | Yale Univ Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner’s landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936.

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9780140137149 | Rev rep edition (Viking Pr, May 1, 1975), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is a book on artists and architects from Britain, USA and Europe and how the best remains today where laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed.

Lancashire: Manchester And The South-East

Product Description: This complete guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire features the proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures at the heart of the great industrial city of Manchester. The book also offers full accounts of the suburbs, the city of Salford, and the industrial towns of Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, and Oldham, each with its own tradition of civic buildings and its own crop of talented local architects...read more

By Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde and Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780300105834 | Yale Univ Pr, January 11, 2005, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This complete guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire features the proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures at the heart of the great industrial city of Manchester.

Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks

Product Description: Nikolaus Pevsner's contribution to the public appreciation of art and architecture is immense. In addition to the famous Buildings of England books, he was a broadcaster for the BBC. Ranging from Breughel's paintings and the buildings of Gaudi, to Elizabethan mannerism, and contemporary American architecture, these radio scripts are uniquely evocative word pictures...read more

By Stephen Games (editor) and Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780413772435 | Methuen Pub Ltd, May 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The book includes illuminating meditations on subjects as diverse as the Bauhaus, the buildings of Gaudi, the architecture of Washington D.

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9780413772442 | Methuen Pub Ltd, June 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Nikolaus Pevsner's contribution to the public appreciation of art and architecture is immense.

Pioneros Del Diseno Moderno/pioneers Of Modern Design: De William Morris A Walter Gropius/from William Morris And Walter Gropius

Product Description: Pieza clave y documento indispensable para comprender e interpretar el nacimiento y la trayectoria fundacional del Movimiento Moderno. Su contenido que se inicia con las doctrinas de William Morris y sus seguidores es un apasionante análisis, pleno de anécdotas y referencias personales, que abarcan todas las etapas de la génesis del diseño del siglo XX y culminan con la obra del famoso arquitecto alemán Walter Gropius y el también famoso y polémico Bauhaus...read more

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9789879393031 | Ediciones Infinito, June 30, 2003, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Pieza clave y documento indispensable para comprender e interpretar el nacimiento y la trayectoria fundacional del Movimiento Moderno.

The Buildings of England: London 6 : Westminster

Product Description: This guide opens up the treasures of London's most alluring quarter. At its core are Westminster Abbey, Parliament, and the palatial Government buildings of Whitehall, together with the great band of Royal Parks stretching westward toward Kensington...read more

By Simon Bradley and Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780300095951 | Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This guide opens up the treasures of London's most alluring quarter.

Hertfordshire

Product Description: Although so close to London this is still a rural area, with quiet country churches with fine monuments, timber-framed farmhouses, and some splendid country houses, of which the most celebrated is Cecil's Jacobean Hatfield House. At St Albans the remains of Roman Verulamium and the great early Norman abbey speak eloquently of older civilizations...read more

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9780300096118 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Although so close to London this is still a rural area, with quiet country churches with fine monuments, timber-framed farmhouses, and some splendid country houses, of which the most celebrated is Cecil's Jacobean Hatfield House.

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9780140710076 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Although so close to London this is still a rural area, with quiet country churches with fine monuments, timber-framed farmhouses, and some splendid country houses, of which the most celebrated is Cecil's Jacobean Hatfield House.

North Lancashire

Product Description: An area of extreme contrasts, from the close-packed but proudly independent textile towns north of Manchester to the romantic scenery of the southern Lake District, and from high Pennine moors to the sandy beaches of Bloackpool and the Fylde Coast...read more

By Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780300096170 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An area of extreme contrasts, from the close-packed but proudly independent textile towns north of Manchester to the romantic scenery of the southern Lake District, and from high Pennine moors to the sandy beaches of Bloackpool and the Fylde Coast.

Lincolnshire

Product Description: Lincolnshire is incredibly rich in medieval churches from Saxon times onwards, many of them still little known. Lincoln Cathedral is justly famous, and second only to Durham in the grandeur of its setting. The prosperous years from the Middle Ages though to the eighteenth century have left a splendid legacy in the great town churches of Boston and Louth, in the innumerable village churches of the south of the county, the delightful manor houses (such as Tennyson's Somersby) and the Georgian town houses and coaching inns of Boston and Grantham, of Lincoln and Louth, and above all of Stamford...read more

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9780300096200 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, June 1, 2002), cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Lincolnshire is incredibly rich in medieval churches from Saxon times onwards, many of them still little known.

9780140710274 | Revised edition (Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: First published in 1964, this text has been expanded to include coverage of 19th and 20th century architecture, industrial archaeology and lesser rural buildings.

The Anti-Rationalists and the Rationalists

Product Description: This book pits some of the most famous architectural theorists against each other in one volume. The subject for debate is Modernism, the most pressing issue of the 20th century. This timely publication gives a comprehensive overview of the arguments and counter-arguments that abound...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nikolaus Pevsner, J. M. Richards and Dennis Sharp

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9780750648158 | Architectural Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $136.00 | About this edition: This book pits some of the most famous architectural theorists against each other in one volume.

The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Product Description: This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field. Besides updating the existing text, the authors have broadened the book by including many new entries on landscape architecture as well as by significantly increasing their treatment of American architects and architecture...read more

By John Fleming, Hugh Honour and Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780670880171 | 5 sub edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1999), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Provides information on the architects and their techniques that have influenced the field of architecture, and includes information on art of landscape architecture.

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9780140513233 | Subsequent edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 2000), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: This is a major revision and expansion of what has long been recognized as a basic reference in its field.

Derbyshire

Product Description: The Derbyshire Peak District makes a dramatic setting for some of England's finest buildings: the rambling medieval Haddon Hall, the great ducal seat and park at Chatsworth, and the amazing late Georgian mills at Cromford and Calver...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Nikolaus Pevsner and Elizabeth Williamson

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9780140710083 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Derbyshire Peak District makes a dramatic setting for some of England's finest buildings: the rambling medieval Haddon Hall, the great ducal seat and park at Chatsworth, and the amazing late Georgian mills at Cromford and Calver.

9780300095913 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, March 11, 1978), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The Derbyshire Peak District makes a dramatic setting for some of England's finest buildings: the rambling medieval Haddon Hall, the great ducal seat and park at Chatsworth, and the late Georgian mills at Cromford and Calver.

Northamptonshire

Product Description: Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural midland county with its excellent local building stone from the limestone belt. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the late seventeenth century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner

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9780140710229 | Revised edition (Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural midland county with its excellent local building stone from the limestone belt.

9780300096323 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, March 11, 1974), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural midland county with its local building stone from the limestone belt.

South and West Somerset

Product Description: The rural southern part of Somerset is particularly rich in church architecture, from the poetic ruins of Glastonbury Abbey to the plain geometry of Lutyens's chapel at Brushford. Somerset's elaborate pinnacled church towers are discussed in detail; the examples at Evercreech, Huish Episcopi, Taunton and elsewhere are among the county's most thrilling and distinctive architectural landmarks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780140710144 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The rural southern part of Somerset is particularly rich in church architecture, from the poetic ruins of Glastonbury Abbey to the plain geometry of Lutyens's chapel at Brushford.

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