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BUILDING A LIBRARY: Nicholas Pevsner
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The Independent on Sunday
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November 2, 2003
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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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