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BUILDING A LIBRARY: Nicholas Pevsner

After the war, the architectural historian and critic Sir Nikolaus Pevsner set out to catalogue every building that matters in England. It took him until 1974 and he published the results county by county in a series called the Buildings of England. For half a century, the BoE's 46 volumes were kept in print by Penguin but distribution has now been taken over by the Yale University Press. From modest paperbacks you could put in your pocket, they have turned into monstrous and unwieldy hardbacks. Worse, the books are now being comprehensively rewritten and although Yale is rebranding them as Pevsner Architectural Guides, his authorship is less and less apparent. But this isn't flagged, so ...

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