Nikolaus Pevsner Introduction (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First US Edition. DJ has edge wear; owner presentation on half-titlepage.

dj. First Edition. First English Edition. Tanning to pages. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. 10 1/4" x 7 1/2", 192 pages, 131 colour and 66 black and white illustrations, bibliography, table of names and dates. One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful colour illustrations; biographies and bibliographies of all major figures; illustrated short essays on key themes, movements, and individuals; a critique of Pevsner's analysis from today's perspective; examples of works after 1914 (where the original study ended); a biography detailing Pevsner's life and achievements; and much more. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers, the work of nineteenth-century engineers, and Art Nouveau. The author considers the role of these sources in the work of early Modernists and looks at such masters of the movement as C.F.A. Voysey and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Britain, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in America, and Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner in Vienna. The account concludes with a discussion of the radical break with the past represented by the design work of Walter Gropius and his future Bauhaus colleagues. Hb in dw, a near fine copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1977. 160 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. Dust jacket shows minimal wear consistent with age. Sysnopsis: Papers on seven architects presented by the Victorian Society. David Walker on William Burn, Hermione Hobhouse on Philip and Philip Charles Hardwick, J. Mordaunt Crook on Sydney Smirke, David Lloyd on John Loughborough Pearson, David Verey on George Frederick Bosley, Stuart Allen Smith on Alfred Waterhouse and Roderick Gradidge on Edwin Lutyens.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with plastic covered unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Nancy Balfour nameplate noted on FEP. Jacket is sunned and marked beneath the plastic cover, with a chip and small tear evident at the spine head jacket and board. Also a small bump to the spine foot. Page block and page edges are somewhat tanned, however pages remain clear and bright throughout. LW. Used.…

Condition: Good. Used, no dust jacket, some outer edges have scuffs, outer pages have marks from shelf wear, book content is in good readable condition.