(Yevele) Harvey, John H.

Henry Yevele c.1320 to 1400. The life of an English architect.

London, B.T.Batsford Ltd (1946).

Reference: 14264
Price: £14 [convert currency]

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8vo. x+86pp, 71 ills partly on photo plates and partly in text, including colour frontispiece. Publisher’s cloth, in dustwrapper. Brian Housden’s copy, with his ink ownership inscription dated 8 July 1953.

The first modern biography of a mediæval English architect. Second edition (with added text on p.68). Harvey, unusually, was also responsible for the design of the volume’s dustwrapper (”jacket design by the author”).