Author: Metcalf, Priscilla
Title: James Knowles - Victorian Editor And Architect
Description: Oxford University Press, 1980, 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. xvi+382pp, b/w frontis, 16pp b/w plates, index, spine of dustjacket sunned & edges rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0198126263 ¶ Biography of father & son architects, both called James Knowles. The father architect of many mansions & large London buildings, the son whilst an architect too, is better known for his editorial career with the review magazine 'Nineteenth Century'. The book also looks at the influence of Knowles editorial career on Victorian Values & the relationship between literary Medievalism & gothic revivalism.

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