Pevsner newsletter 2016/17

PEVSNER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDES Newsletter 2016/17 RECENT PUBLICATIONS 2016 has seen the launch of the new Pevsner Introductions series, two revised Buildings of England county volumes, and the new Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, completing coverage of Scotland.

Derbyshire, revised by Clare Hartwell. A new edition covering Pevsner’s ‘county of contrasts’, replacing Elizabeth Williamson’s revision of 1978.

Enhanced and updated accounts of Derbyshire’s great mansions – Bolsover, Chatsworth, Haddon, Hardwick, Kedleston – are accompanied by greatly enriched surveys of the county’s diverse inheritance of lesser houses, its pioneering (and often spectacular) industrial sites, its multifarious towns and villages, and its distinctive and rewarding traditions of church-building, tomb sculpture and ironwork.

ISBN 978 0 300 21559 5 May 2016 £35

ISBN 978 0 300 21560 1 June 2016 £35

Warwickshire, revised by Chris Pickford. The first full-scale revision of Pevsner’s 1966 volume, written by an author born in the county. Famous for the attractions of world-renowned Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire is also rich in other historic villages and towns. The new edition supplements and enhances Pevsner’s assessments, offering fresh perspectives on major buildings such as Warwick Castle and Rugby School, the contributions of distinguished architects in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the celebrated post-war rebuilding of Coventry.

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire by Rob Close, John Gifford and Frank Arneil Walker. With the publication of this book, covering two of the least known Scottish counties, the Buildings of Scotland series is complete. No other volume can claim such diversity, from the cottages and churches of the deeply rural villages of Clydesdale to the medieval abbey at the centre of Paisley in Renfrewshire, from the great port of Greenock on the Clyde to the former steel and iron towns of the Lanarkshire coalfield. In the model weaving village of Robert Owen’s New Lanark and the post-war New Town of Cumbernauld, the region can also boast planned settlements of international significance.

978 0 300 21554 0 March 2016 £12.99

978 0 300 21553 3 March 2016 £12.99

978 0 300 22368 2 October 2016 £12.99

Pevsner Introductions comple­ ment the familiar Guides, providing accessible, engaging accounts of buildings by type and theme. The first two volISBN 978 0 300 21558 8 umes, Houses and Churches, November 2016 £35 were published in March 2016.

Written by the joint editors of the Guides, and distilling years of experience, these are books for anyone who would like to understand more about England’s architectural history.

Lavishly illus­ tra­ ted and clearly written, the texts explain key components, stylistic changes, regional variations, and vocabulary. Readers can evaluate dates and phases, and interpret historic developments. A companion volume, a redesigned and expanded edition of the pop­ular Pevsner’s Architectural Glossary, was published in October.

Readers and users of our books owe a great debt to Sally Salvesen, publisher of the Pevsner series at Yale from 2002, who left the company in September 2016. New publications during Sally’s time amount to twenty-nine revised Buildings of England volumes, seven of the Buildings of Scotland, four of the Buildings of Wales and two of the Buildings of Ireland, ten paperback City Guides, the launch of the Introductions series and Glossary, and the associated glossary app. She has our very best wishes for all her future plans.

Our website www.yalebooks.co.uk/pevsner.asp provides more information about the series, work in progress and recent publications. You can order volumes directly, and keep up to date with special offers and other news.

PEVSNER ARCHITECTURAL GUIDES COMPLETION OF THE BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND SERIES BUILDING BY BUILDING, WORD BY WORD,

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This great reference series … captures … the ‘real Scotland’, with its record of our past and present social structures, our cosmopolitanism, our priorities, the legacy of our atavistic compulsions.

Colin Donald, Sunday Herald The Buildings of Scotland series, conceived as far back as the late 1950s, is now complete. Lothian by Colin McWilliam was published in 1978, and there are now fifteen volumes, meeting his objective ‘to present all the buildings that merit attention on architectural grounds, to do it for the whole country and to do it with all possible speed’. This is an unmatched achievement.

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FORTHCOMING FOR

2017

Oxfordshire: North and West, revised by Alan Brooks. A fully updated and expanded guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood’s 1974 account. Here is a largely unspoilt landscape of stone-built towns, villages and country houses. Rich in medieval parish churches, it can show good work of every period, including outstanding Decorated work of the 14th century at Adderbury and Bloxham. The vernacular architecture of the villages and farms is covered in depth, as are urban buildings, in­­ clu­ding those of the exceptionally rewarding wool towns of Burford and Chipping Nor­ ISBN 978 0 300 20930 3 ton. But Oxfordshire is also a county of great Spring 2017 £35 houses, from the romantic medieval ruins of Minster Lovell to Blenheim Palace, and the late flowering of Lutyens’ 1930s Middleton Park.

A second volume is in preparation, covering the city of Oxford and the area of the historic county to the south-east.

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, revised by Ruth Harman.

Com­panion to Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (2009), the new volume expands and brings fully up to date the accounts of the major towns ISBN 978 0 300 22468 9 | Autumn 2017 £35 in the southern area of the West Riding, among them Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield and Wakefield with their outstanding 18th- and 19th-century ecclesiastical, civic, commercial and industrial buildings. Smaller towns and villages are spread across a varied landscape that ranges from the rolling hills of Calderdale, rich in 17th-century clothiers’ houses and 19th-century textile mills, to farmhouses and windmills in the flat fenland along the River Ouse. Major examples of every period of English architecture are represented, from medieval Selby Abbey to the Sheffield Council flats at Park Hill.

December Special Offer!

To thank you for being part of the Pevsner community, we would like to offer you 25% off all Pevsner guides, plus free P&P, in December. Valid for published volumes, UK orders only, via the Yale website.

Enter promo code Y1687 at the checkout stage of your order.

Offer ends 31st December 2016.

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