Richard Norman Shaw by Saint, Andrew - 2010

London: Yale University Press 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… Read More

Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press, 2010. 4to. 498 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. Hardcover. Fine.