Record

Ref NoDM1294/19/2
TitleBuildings of England series general editorial file (BE/0702)
DescriptionCorrespondence 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.
Date1947-1969
FormatManuscript
Extent1 file
Access ConditionsPrior permission must be obtained from Penguin Books Ltd. Please ask Special Collections for further information.
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