By Charles O'Brien, Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry
Yale £45
From start to finish, Charles O'Brien's revised Pevsner Guide to Surrey is a beautiful book – from the magnificent photograph on the front cover of Horsley Towers, designed by Byron's son-in-law, the Earl of Lovelace, in 1858, to the glossary and indexes at the end.
The glossary is a joy in itself, with its eight pages of exquisite little architectural drawings of mouldings
