Catalogues & Lists

Hugh Pagan Limited issues three scholarly illustrated catalogues each year, and a complete set of our first fifty-four catalogues is available from us at a price of £120 including postage. We also issue occasional supplementary lists. Below are online versions of the latest catalogues and lists. Copies of our Index to Catalogues 26-50 are available for £20 each including postage, and a few remaining copies of the Index to Catalogues 1-25 are available at the same price.

List 93: Architecture; including recent acquisitions and books on the Elgin Marbles and related subjects from the Library of William St Clair

The books that we offer in the present list are drawn from across the range of our firm’s stock,and include handsome copies in contemporary bindings of Charles Etienne Briseux’s two-volume Traité du Beau Essentiel dans les Arts appliqué particulièrement à l’Architecture, 1752 (item 14), notable for the fact that both its text and its plates are engraved throughout, and of Thomas Martyn’s The English Connoisseur, 1766 (item 58). We also offer here a significant range of titles relating to Greece … […]

List 92: Architectural Books from the Sixteenth Century onwards

This is the first list that our firm has issued since the onset of the COVID epidemic in the early spring of 2020, and we have thought it appropriate to demonstrate that even in these demanding times it is still possible to offer a good range of early editions of some of the most celebrated architectural treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, together with a selection of other rare, interesting or simply useful titles of more recent date. It … […]

Catalogue 75: Architecture and the Fine Arts… with a few surprises

We issued our first catalogue in October 1987, just over thirty-two years ago, and this catalogue, issued in the early spring of 2020, is the seventy-fifth that we have issued. All of these have been compiled on the same principles and designed and printed in the same format, and they have, we believe, set as good a standard in terms of content and of the reliability of the information provided as has been achieved by any antiquarian bookseller operating in … […]

List 91:Modernist Architecture in the inter-war period and afterwards (100 books)

We offer here a good representative selection from our accumulated stock of books on modern movement architecture, chiefly focused on the design work and career achievements of architects prominent in the 1920s and 1930s, but including some titles relating to more recent architects working in modernist idioms.

List 90: Latin America, Portugal, Spain, Rome, Naples and Sicily

Including books on Francisco De Hollanda. We offer in this list a wide-ranging selection of books on the art and architecture of Southern Europe and of Latin America, centering round a small group of books from the library of the late John Bury (1917-2017), who was particularly interested in the art and architecture of Portugal and Spain, and of their colonial territories in Central America and South America. One of Bury’s specialist areas of knowledge was the life and artistic … […]

Catalogue 74: Architecture and the Fine Arts

As is customary with our catalogues, we offer here a selection of interesting and sought-after publications on architecture and the fine arts, ranging from important seventeenth century editions of treatises by Serlio (item 109) and Scamozzi (item101), to a set of the Frank Lloyd Wright issues of the periodical Wendingen (item 128), and to the late Gavin Stamp’s copies of a number of monographs on European architects of the interwar period in the multilingual Masters of Architecture series (items 39, … […]

List 89: Architecture in Britain since 1660 – History and Reference

The books offered here represent the last of four selections from the working library formed by the late Gavin Stamp (1948-2017), architectural historian, architectural journalist, and fearless champion of the conservation of Britain’s built architectural heritage. The books that we are offering do not represent the totality of Stamp’s working library, for other titles were retained by his widow or given in his memory to friends, and we did not purchase a number of architectural titles that were of slight … […]

List 88: Victorian Architects and Architecture

The books offered here represent the third of four selections from the working library formed by the late Gavin Stamp (1948-2017), architectural historian, architectural journalist and fearless champion of the conservation of Britain’s built architectural heritage. A final list will offer his books on British architectural history from the time of Wren and Hawksmoor onwards. The books that we are offering do not represent the totality of Stamp’s working library, for other titles were retained by his widow or given … […]

Catalogue 73: Seventy Three Books

The books that we offer in the present catalogue include an unusual number that are of more than ordinary significance and value. A good proportion of these derive from a collection of books on architecture and related subjects puttogether in the years after the 1939-45 war by George Anthony Atkinson OBEARIBA (1915-2015), a long-term employee of the UK Government’s Building Research Establishment at Garston, Watford, Hertfordshire, retiring as the BRE’sChief Architect in 1977 and still remembered for his notable contributions … […]

List 87: Alternatives to Modernism

The books offered here represent the second of four intended selections from the working library formed by the late Gavin Stamp (1948-2017), architectural historian, architectural journalist, and fearless champion of the conservation of Britain’s built architectural heritage. A third list will offer his books on Victorian architecture, and a final list will offer his books on British architectural history from the time of Wren and Hawksmoor onwards. The books that we are offering do not represent the totality of Stamp’s … […]