Richard Norman Shaw

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1977. Near Fine condition. Large softcover. 7.5" wide by 9.75" tall by 1.25" thick. A bright, shiny, clean, tight copy. The spine is square and flat. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Reprint of the 1976 edition, with minor correction. Profusely illustrated. Includes a 37-page Catalogue of Executed Work. Appendix: Pupils and Assistants. Lists of chapter notes/sources. Index. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London) Ltd by Yale University Press. A volume from the publisher's STUDIES IN BRITISH ART series. Bound in the original full-color pictorial wrappers. From the rear cover: "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 the social world. 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 formulative part in the evolution of the 'Shingle Style.'" . Second printing, corrected. Softcover. Near Fine condition. xx, 487pp.