Welcome to Hugh Pagan Online

Welcome to the Hugh Pagan site. Our firm specialises in rare and out-of-print architectural books, periodicals, prints and drawings, while also stocking books in related fields such as town planning, interior decoration and garden design.

On this site you can search or browse our stock, view our most recent additions and catalogues or read our book, library and exhibition reviews and articles.

Hugh Pagan discusses 30 years in the antiquarian book trade, see Reflections of a bookseller

Recent Catalogues

Catalogue 56: Architecture and British Topography

- November 2006

124 items including Clerisseau's elephant folio of 1778 on the Maison Carrée at Nimes, books on English topography and what appears to be the dedication copy of William Wilkins's Atheniensia, 1816.

Catalogue 55: Architecture and Art History

- June 2006

A selection of 130 items, including a set of the celebrated Denkmaler des Theaters portfolios and books by Jules Guiffrey, Batty Langley, Stephen Riou and Paul Sandby.

Catalogue 54: Architecture

- February 2006

A international selection of 130 rare books on Architecture including an excellent volume of early 18th century pamphlets on various designs for a new bridge over the Thames at Westminster in London...

Hugh Pagan writes

Out of Print and into Profit Cover

Out of Print and into Profit

Hugh Pagan reviews the centenary publication for the Antiquarian Booksellers Association which gives the history of the rare and secondhand book trade in Britain in the twentieth century.

Library Collections

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York is often termed the National Library for the profession, and indeed it ranks as one of the world's finest collections of architectural books and drawings.