Nikolaus Pevsner [editor]

The Pelican History of Art

London, Penguin Books, 1953-1964. Cloth. Ten very smart volumes on art, sculpture, and architecture from Pelican at Penguin Books. Ten volumes. Edited by Nikolaus Pevsner, a German-British art historian and architectural historian remembered for his monumental forty-six volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England. This set includes: Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, 1953. First edition. Written by Ellis Waterhouse, an English art historian and museum director. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-two plates. Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages, 1954. First edition. Written by Margaret Rickert, an American art historian and code breaker in the Second World War. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-two plates. Sculpture in Britain, 1955. First edition. Written by Lawrence Stone, an English historian of early modern Britain. Illustrated with ten in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, 1963. Revised and rearranged edition. Written by John Summerson, one of the leading British architectural historians of the twentieth century. Illustrated with forty-eight in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture in Britain: The Middle Ages, 1956. First edition. Written by Geoffrey Webb, a British art historian who acted as head of the Monuments and Fine Arts section of the Allied Control Commission during World War II. Illustrated with ninety-one in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1958. First edition. Written by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, an American architectural historian whose writings helped to define the characteristics of modernist architecture. Illustrated with fifty-seven in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800 to 1200, 1959. First edition. Written by Kenneth John Conant, an American architectural historian and educator who specialised in the Medieval period. Illustrated with eighty in-text figures and one hundred and seventy-six plates. Gothic Architecture, 1962. First edition. Written by Paul Frankl, an Austrian Art Deco furniture designer and maker, architect, and painter. Illustrated with fifty-seven in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, 1963. Fourth enlarged and revised edition. Written by John Summerson, one of the leading British architectural historians of the twentieth century. Illustrated with sixty-nine in-text figures and two hundred and twenty-four plates. Sculpture in Britain 1530 to 1830, 1964. First edition. Written by Margaret Whinney, a British art historian and teacher at the Courtland Institute of Art. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-two plates. Collated complete. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and library ink marks to the tail of the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. British Council bookplate to the front pastedown. Council library sheet to the front endpapers of few volumes. Council library stamp to volume one edition page. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Boeknummer: 867T57

Catalogus: Art

Trefwoorden: Pelican History Art Sculpture History None

Summerson, John (1904-1992)

Architecture in Britain 1530-1830

Harmondsworth : Penguin 1953. First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Gilt motif to front panel. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Front hinge starting. Small tear in cloth between spine and front panel. Taped repairs to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. In protective clear plastic cover. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 373 pages; Physical description: xviii. 373p. 192 plates : ill.plans ; 27cm. Subjects: Architecture - Great Britain - History. Series: Pelican history of art ; Z3.

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Boeknummer: 200415

Summerson, John (1904-)

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830 / John Summerson

Harmondsworth : Penguin 1963. Fourth Revised and enlarged edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Series; Pelican history of art ; z3. Physical description; xx. 391 p. ; 26 cm. Subjects; Architecture Great Britain History. Genre; Illustrated.

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Boeknummer: 291059

Summerson, John (1904-1992)

Architecture in Britain/ 1530 to 1830/ John Summerson

Harmondsworth: Penguin 1963. Fourth revised and enlarged Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth in an edge-worn slipcase. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: 611 p. illus. maps. 21 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. [569]-576. Subjects: Architecture Great Britain. Architecture. Renaissance Great Britain. Neoclassicism (Architecture) Great Britain. Genre: Architecture.

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Boeknummer: 319631

SUMMERSON, JOHN

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830

Penguin Books. 1983. (ISBN: 014056103x). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. 624 pages; 448 illustrations. The Pelican History of Art. Clean, tight copy. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 003544

Catalogus: Art-Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Australia

Trefwoorden: British Architecture Art Britain English Architecture History 014056103x

Sir John Newenham Summerson

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830

Penguin Books, 1953. Linnen band. Pp: 372. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3150922

Catalogus: Architectuur

Summerson, John

The Pelican History Of Art - Architecture In Britain 1530 - 1830

Pelican (Penguin), 1970. Druk: reprint. Binding: Paperback. 611pp. 21 x 15, 441 b/w ills.. minor wear to covers, protective tape on spine, name on front cover and first page, otherwise very good

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Boeknummer: 5329

Catalogus: art

Trefwoorden: english0, inigo jones, hugh may, christopher wren, palladian phase, neo classicism