APPENDIX 3 ,
A Comparison
BETWEEN THIS EDITION AND THE TWO
PENGUIN EDITIONS OF 1943 AND 1945
first edition of this book, published by Penguin Books in 1942,
was by at least one-third shorter than this third edition. For readers
familiar with the first or the enlarged second Penguin edition it may
be useful to have a list of the chief additions.
The most serious omission in the original text was Spain. I had decided,
after much hesitation, to leave it out, partly for lack of space, and partly
because I have never travelled in Spain. Then, however, Geoffrey Webb
in his very generous review in The Architectural Review brought forward
such incontrovertible reasons for giving Spain her due, even in the smallest
of histories of architecture, that I changed my mind and said what little I
could on the Visigothic-"Carolingian5* style, the Late Gothic of the I5th
century, the Plateresque and the 18th-century Baroque. All these expres-
sions" of the Spanish character in architecture may, from the European
point of view, not be as central as events in France and Italy, but they are
not more marginal than, say, the Elizabethan style in England or the
Rococo in Germany.
As for other additions, pages 24 to 26 have a little more on the schools
of French Romanesque than there had been. From pages 56 to 66 nearly
all is new, a somewhat more comprehensive analysis of Decorated and
Perpendicular in England, the Late Gothic of the Friars and of Spain and
the "Sondergotik" of Germany. Pages 103 to about 105 contain a far too
brief account of Mannerism in Italian architecture; pages 142 to 145, anote
on the development of staircases in the i6th and 17th centuries. On pages
155 to 157 some new matter, though not enough, will be found on the
Elizabethan and Jacobean styles. Pages 188 to 190 are given to some
hints on the landscape garden, one of the greatest English contributions
to Western architecture, and one treated quite inadequately in the first
edition. Finally, on pages 188 to 198 comment on the Classical and the
early Gothic Revival is amplified, and some lines of appreciation inserted
oxrthe genius of John Soane and Friedrich Gilly*
So much for tie differences between the editions of 1943 and 1945.
Now for this present edition still more minor gaps were filled in. There
are a few lines new on pages i and 2 on Roman architecture, and a few on
pages 4 and 5 on the origin of the Christian basilica and on Constantinian
basilicas. On pages 7 and 8 a little more is said on Anglo-Saxon and
. Merovingian churches, and on pages 10 and 11 a little more on Carolingian
architecture, especially Centula. The treatment of the Romanesque style
has scarcely been altered. Minor additions will be found regarding early
tunnel-vaults (page 20), two-tower facades (page 24), the characteristics
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