Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South—East (Pevsner Buildings of England)
Revised by Simon Bradley
Yale University Press £45
Round the great domed rotunda of the Radcliffe Camera ‘there is a density of monuments of architecture which has not the like in Europe’.
So wrote Nikolaus Pevsner in 1974, on completing his daringly ambitious project, begun in 1945, of surveying, volume by volume, the buildings of every county in England,
Simon Bradley, the current editor of