Howard Colvin
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Sir Howard Montagu Colvin, CVO, CBE (b. 15 October 1919) is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 ISBN 0-300-07207-4 published by the Yale University Press in 1997.
He was educated at University College London. He went to the University of Oxford in 1948 to pursue teaching and writing on medieval architectural topics. He produced two of the outstanding works of scholarship in his field: along with the dictionary of architects, he wrote a multi-volume study of architectural plans that were created for the British monarchy, The History of the King's Works.
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[edit] Publications
[edit] The History of the King's Works
- London : H.M.S.O, (1963) to (1982)
- ISBN 0-11-670571-X
- ISBN 0-11-670568-X (v.3,pt 1)
- ISBN 0-11-670832-8 (v.4,pt 2)
- ISBN 0-11-670571-X (v.5)
- ISBN 0-11-670286-9 (v.6)
- ISBN 0-11-671116-7 (Plans 5-7)
[edit] Other works
- A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 ISBN 0-300-07207-4, Yale University Press (1997)
- Unbuilt Oxford ISBN 0-300-03126-2, Yale University Press (1983)
- Architecture and the After-Life New Haven: Yale University Press, (1991)
- The Canterbury Quadrangle, St. John's College, Oxford ISBN 978-0-19-920159-4 or ISBN 0-19-920159-5 (1988)
