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RR 2012/039 Pevsner's Architectural Glossary Yale University Press New Haven, CT and London 2010 144 pp. ISBN 978 0 300 16721 4 $45 Pevsner Architectural Guides Published for the Pevsner Book Trust
Keywords Architecture, Dictionaries, United Kingdom
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121211195432
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) was the founder and chief author of the first Buildings of England series of county guides published from 1951. These have since been revised and augmented with volumes covering Scotland, Wales and Ireland. (For a listing of the complete corpus see Reference Reviews Survey: The Buildings of England (24(5) 2010 p. 5)). Pevsner and subsequent editors included informative and well-illustrated glossaries of architectural terms in their volumes and the work under review here is essentially an amalgamation and updating of these glossaries....