The Buildings of England. Cornwall
PEVSNER, Nikolaus
BRIGHT COPY OF THE FIRST PEVSNER
Published: Penguin, [1951]
Stock code: 51065
Price: £60.00
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, 91 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text, half-title faintly browned; original printed wrappers, backstrip minimally chafed at head else an unusually bright, clean copy.
THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK IN PEVSNER'S MONUMENTAL SERIES. Published as Penguin BE1, this unassuming volume marked the beginning of the most important architectural survey of the twentieth century. The work was originally published without a dustwrapper which first appeared with later issues of 1952-3. BE1; Cherry PC1. PJ1.