New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, Date: 2010. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 498 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. Record # 353529 2010. Yale University Press ISBN 0300155263 9780300155266 [US]

London: Yale University Press Date: 2010. 4to. xiii, 498 pp,. Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket bright with some sunning to the spine and wear to the corners. Boards clean and binding firm. Some marks to the fore edge otherwise clean and bright, illustrated in black and white and colour throughout. Copy of David Budworth (of the Bedford Park society) with his bookplate and ink inscription that it ws a gift from the author to the front pastedown. Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative and immediately influential domestic architect of the late Victorian period in England. His training and early career coincided with the heyday of the Gothic Revival, in which style he designed a handful of original churches. His most prolific period of practice saw the triumph of the 'Old English' and 'Queen Anne' domestic styles which are largely associated with his name. A series of powerful urban buildings designed towards the end of Shaw's career reveals him as one of the foremost proponents of a revived classicism. In each of these styles the piquant originality of Shaw's designs and the brilliance of his planning captivated his contemporaries in the architectural and social world alike. He became the undisputed leading architect of his day and the precursor of such different talents as Lutyens and Voysey. In the United States, Shaw's distinctive contribution to English domestic architecture played a formative part in the evolution o ...

Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press, Date: 2010. 4to. 498 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Hardcover. Fine. 2010. Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press ISBN 0300155263 9780300155266 [US]