Product Description

A leading British architect who also designed furniture, silver, textiles, stained glass, and jewelry, Pugin is one of the greatest designers of the mid-nineteenth century. Providing insight into both Pugin and his work, this collection of correspondence is an invaluable source for architectural and religo-historical research.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2992230 in Books
• Published on: 2001-07-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 462 pages

Review
`This is the first complete edition of those [Pugin's] letters ever published and, when finished, will reach five volumes ... The quality of the editing is very high indeed and one looks forward to the remaining volumes.' Contemporary Review

`Margaret Belcher has embarked on a great work both of dedication and scholarship.' Rosemary Hill, TLS

`The letters give us Pugin "without disguise" ... The quality of the editing is very high indeed and one looks forward to the remaining volumes' Contemporary Review

`Margaret Belcher's bibliography of Pugin's work, published in 1987, was invaluable, and her editing of his Letters ... will place many more students and scholars further in her debt. Perhaps only those who have tried to read Pugin's extraordinary handwriting can truly appreciate the scale of her achievement. In the style of her subject, she has taken on alone an enterprise that might easily have occupied a whole team.' Rosemary Hill, TLS

About the Author
Margaret Belcher is at University of Canterbury.