Buildings of England

The history of this long-running series is in large part the history of one man, Nikolaus Pevsner, who spearheaded the project and wrote three quarters of the books himself, co-authoring the rest. The series was well-esteemed and, like many well-esteemed projects, financially troubled; a grant from the Leverhulme trust helped to make up for the earnings shortfall. Ad yet not only did Pevsner champion the project to completion before his death, he spawned a continuation in both the Buildings of Scotland and Ireland, separate series that he served as EIC and which were published by Yale, rather than Penguin. The series is now generally referred to as the “Pevsner Books.” It’s quite a legacy for a man who was once an early Hitler supporter, then a German half-Jewish exile in London, whose first work for Penguin was written in an internment camp.

#	Buildings of	Title	Author	Year
BE1	England	Cornwall	Nikolaus Pevsner	1951
BE2	England	Nottinghamshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1951
BE3	England	Middlesex	Nikolaus Pevsner	1951
BE4	England	North Devon	Nikolaus Pevsner	1952
BE5	England	South Devon	Nikolaus Pevsner	1952
BE6	England	London 2	Nikolaus Pevsner	1952
BE7	England	Hertfordshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1953
BE8	England	Derbyshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1953
BE9	England	County Durham	Nikolaus Pevsner	1953
BE10	England	Cambridgeshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1954
BE11	England	Essex	Nikolaus Pevsner	1954
BE12	England	London 1	Nikolaus Pevsner	1957
BE13	England	North Somerset and Bristol	Nikolaus Pevsner	1958
BE14	England	South and West Somerset	Nikolaus Pevsner	1958
BE15	England	Northumberland	Nikolaus Pevsner	1957
BE16	England	Shropshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1958
BE17	England	Yorkshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1959
BE18	England	Leicestershire and Rutland	Nikolaus Pevsner	1960
BE19	England	Buckinghamshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1960
BE20	England	Suffolk	Nikolaus Pevsner	1961
BE21	England	Surrey	Nikolaus Pevsner	1962
BE22	England	Northamptonshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1961
BE23	England	North-East Norfolk and Norwich	Nikolaus Pevsner	1962
BE24	England	North-West and South Norfolk	Nikolaus Pevsner	1962
BE25	England	Herefordshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1963
BE26	England	Wiltshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1963
BE27	England	Lincolnshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1964
BE28	England	Sussex	Ian Nairn	1965
BE29	England	Yorkshire: The North Riding	Nikolaus Pevsner	1966
BE30	England	Berkshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1966
BE31	England	Warwickshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1966
BE32	England	Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	Nikolaus Pevsner	1967
BE33	England	Cumerland and Westmorland	Nikolaus Pevsner	1968
BE34	England	Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough	Nikolaus Pevsner	1968
BE35	England	Worcestershire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1968
BE36	England	South Lancashire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1969
BE37	England	North Lancashire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1969
BE38	England	West Kent and the Weald	John Newman	1970
BE39	England	North East and East Kent	John Newman	1969
BE40	England	Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds	David Verey	1970
BE41	England	Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean	David Verey	1970
BE42	England	Cheshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1971
BE43	England	Yorkshire: York and the East Riding	Nikolaus Pevsner	1972
BE44	England	Dorset	John Newman	1972
BE45	England	Oxfordshire	Jennifer Sherwood	1974
BE46	England	Staffordshire	Nikolaus Pevsner	1974
BE47	England	London 2: South	Bridget Cherry	1982
BE48	England	London 3: North West	Bridget Cherry	1982
BE49	England	London 4: North	Bridget Cherry	1982