Editing Nikolaus Pevsner (section)

== ''Buildings of England'' ==
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{{quote box|width=25em|bgcolor=#c6dbf7|align=right|quote="The volumes of the Buildings of England—and now Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well—will be written by, revised and expanded by others, but they will always be known as 'Pevsners'. They are his memorial"|source=—[[Gavin Stamp]] in [[The Spectator]]'s obituary of Pevsner<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/3rd-september-1983/13/sir-nikolaus-pevsner|first=Gavin|last=Stamp|author-link=Gavin Stamp|title=Sir Nikolaus Pevsner: Obituary|work=[[The Spectator]]|date=3 September 1983|access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref>}}
Work on the ''[[Buildings of England]]'' series began in 1945, and the first volume was published in 1951. Pevsner wrote 32 of the books himself and 10 with collaborators, with a further four of the original series written by others. Since his death, work has continued on the series, which has been extended to cover the rest of the United Kingdom, under the title [[Pevsner Architectural Guides]], now published by [[Yale University Press]].{{sfn|Cherry|1998|p=}} 

After updating and correcting ''London 1: The Cities of London and Westminster'' for its reissue in 1962, Pevsner delegated the revision and expansion of further volumes to others, beginning with Enid Radcliffe for ''Essex'' (1965).{{sfn|Harries|2011|p=}} The gazetteer descriptions of revised volumes do not routinely distinguish between Pevsner's original text and any new writing, but more recent books sometimes supply his words in quotation when the revising author's judgement differs, where a building has since been altered, or where the old text is no longer topical.

Although Pevsner oversaw the publication of the initial volumes of the Scottish, Welsh and Irish counterparts of ''The Buildings of England'' (and in each was credited as "Editor-in-Chief", "Founding Editor" and "Editorial Adviser" respectively) he did not write any of them. As with the revisions of his earlier works, many of these volumes were the work of several contributors. Coverage of the whole of Great Britain was completed in 2023, with the Irish series still in progress.