Pugin in His Home: Two Memoirs by John Hardman Powell

Author(s): Powell, John Jardman; Wedgwood, Alexandra (editor)

Binding:	Softcover
Volume Condition:	Near Fine
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	The Pugin Society
Publication Year:	2006
Publication Place:	Thanet, UK
Book ID:	003651
Catalogue(s):	Autobiography and Biography ◇ Art ◇ History - Family and Institutional History, Geneaology

New Enlarged edition. 60pp, black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Printed card covers; stapled. Other than small blemish at top of rear cover, as new condition. 8vo. Two essays on A W Pugin by the young artist who joined his household in Ramsgate in 1844. Pugin, considered then the leader of both the Gothic and Catholic revivals, was an exacting master but Powell stayed with him until the end of his life. Towards the end of his life Powell recorded, in these two essays, Pugin's eventful life and work.

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