Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard --features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned. "Outstanding. . . . A most readable biography as well as a scholarly ...
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Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard --features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned. "Outstanding. . . . A most readable biography as well as a scholarly assessment of Shaw's work."--Adam Fergusson, Sunday Times (on the original edition)
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Add this copy of Richard Norman Shaw to cart. $315.00, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Yale University Press.
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VG+/VG+: Exlibrary book. Stamp on front free end page. Stamp on back pasted end page. Stamp on top text block. A red casebound book with the title in gilt lettering on the spine. There is a dust jacket with the title in green at the top of a color-pictorial spine. Pages: (5), vi-xiii, (1), 1-498. Profusely illustrated with a healthy mix of both color and black-and-white illustrations. "Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard--features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned." Contents are as follows: 1. Apprenticeship--Dedication and Pupillage--Travels--Street's Office--First Designs--2. South and North--Origins of Old English--Nesfield and Shaw--Yorkshire--Cragside--3. The Country House--Outside--Inside--Four Houses--4. The Pattern of Practice--Queen Anne--The RA Drawaings--The Customers--The Painters' Houses--Builders--Concrete--Furniture--H and Health--The Office--5. Turning Point--Illness--Albert Hall Mansions--Bedford Park--Flete--Crisis--6. The Town House and the Path to Classicism--The London House--Commerce and Reconstruction in the 1880s--T he Home and its Dwelling Rooms'--Two Commissions--7. The Church--Framework--Fittings--All Saints' Leek--8. The 1890s--Eminence--RA or RIBA? --Shaw and the Arts and Crafts Movement--Home and Habits--Jobs of the 1890s--9. Improving the Cities--London--Liverpool--The Quadrant--The Quietus--Catalogue of Executed Work--1. Buildings, By Date--2. Miscellaneous Jobs--3. Gazetteer.
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Add this copy of Richard Norman Shaw (Studies in British Art) to cart. $7.04, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1983 by Yale University Press.
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