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Ref No	DM1294/19/2
Title	Buildings of England series general editorial file (BE/0702)
Description	Correspondence between A.S.B. Glover and John Armitage, Winifred Bailey, Arthur Beer, W. Foges (Publicity Products Ltd.), Anthony Godwin, Allen Lane, Mary Mouat, Judy Nairn, Nikolaus Pevsner, Michael Rubinstein, Hans Schmoller, Richard H. Smith, Raleigh Trevelyan (Collins Publishers), and Herbert A. Wolff (Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst). Includes a summary of a meeting on guidebooks setting out the title, format, price, length, layout and illustrations for Buildings of England series, 10 October 1949; testimonials for the series from John Coolidge, Professor James Grote Van Derpool, Professor Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Richard H. Howland, Joseph C. Sloane and John Walker; a threat of court proceedings from Rowton Houses Ltd. concerning a reference to 'slums' in the 'Buildings of England: London' and an agreement to reword the offending paragraph in subsequent printings; discussion about bound editions; the Leverhulme grant; costings for the 'Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland'; the redesign of the Buildings of England book jacket and bindings, 1965; 'Leonard Fairclough News', May and June 1953.
Date	1947-1969
Format	Manuscript
Extent	1 file
Access Conditions	Prior permission must be obtained from Penguin Books Ltd. Please ask Special Collections for further information.

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