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Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. Donald Buttress has been described as "the last of the Victorians". It is an epithet he welcomes: Scott, Butterfield, Street, Bodley, Temple Moore and, above all, J. L.Pearson have been a source of inspiration to him throughout a career extending over six decades. Raised and trained in Manchester he became a passionate defender of historic buildings. The text is by architectural historian Kenneth Powell but the choice of pictures and the discursive captions to them have been chosen and written by Donald Buttress himself..