Professor Emeritus James Stevens Curl is a distinguished architectural historian. He has acquired an enviable international reputation for thorough research, often investigating subjects avoided by those of a more timid disposition. New nearing the end of his seventh decade, his acerbic wit, intellectual curiosity and fluency of expression remain undiminished.
a remarkable contribution to architectural publishing and will provide a huge insight into the architecture of the period' Perspective: The Journal of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects 2008 Those of us who think we know our Victorian architecture will find unfamiliar but wonderful buildings on almost every page of this vast and magisterial work which it is hard to imagine being superceded.' -- David Watkin The Architectural Review 2008 overall, it has the best range of illustrations of Victorian architecture that this reviewer has ever seen in a single volume. [It] is a magnificent achievement, a labour of love for the subject we all love, by a scholar who has devoted several decades to its study.' -- Steven Brindle The Victorian 2008 a heroic publishing achievement' -- Roger Bowdler The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery 2008
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