1953-1964 The Pelican History of Art

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Ten volumes. Edited by Nikolaus Pevsner, a German-British art historian and architectural historian remembered for his monumental forty-six volume series of county-by-county guides, The Buildings of England. This set includes: Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, 1953. First edition. Written by Ellis Waterhouse, an English art historian and museum director. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-two plates. Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages, 1954. First edition. Written by Margaret Rickert, an American art historian and code breaker in the Second World War. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-two plates. Sculpture in Britain, 1955. First edition. Written by Lawrence Stone, an English historian of early modern Britain. Illustrated with ten in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, 1963. Revised and rearranged edition. Written by John Summerson, one of the leading British architectural historians of the twentieth century. Illustrated with forty-eight in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture in Britain: The Middle Ages, 1956. First edition. Written by Geoffrey Webb, a British art historian who acted as head of the Monuments and Fine Arts section of the Allied Control Commission during World War II. Illustrated with ninety-one in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1958. First edition. Written by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, an American architectural historian whose writings helped to define the characteristics of modernist architecture. Illustrated with fifty-seven in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800 to 1200, 1959. First edition. Written by Kenneth John Conant, an American architectural historian and educator who specialised in the Medieval period. Illustrated with eighty in-text figures and one hundred and seventy-six plates. Gothic Architecture, 1962. First edition. Written by Paul Frankl, an Austrian Art Deco furniture designer and maker, architect, and painter. Illustrated with fifty-seven in-text figures and one hundred and ninety-two plates. Architecture in Britain 1530 to 1830, 1963. Fourth enlarged and revised edition. Written by John Summerson, one of the leading British architectural historians of the twentieth century. Illustrated with sixty-nine in-text figures and two hundred and twenty-four plates. Sculpture in Britain 1530 to 1830, 1964. First edition. Written by Margaret Whinney, a British art historian and teacher at the Courtland Institute of Art. Illustrated with one hundred and ninety-two plates. Collated complete.