Much has been written in recent years on the architecture of Stowe. Mr Laurence Whistler's guidebook was first published in 1956 and two revised editions have subsequently appeared; the issue of Apollo for June 1973 was devoted to Stowe; numerous articles on the house and its gardens have appeared in Country Life, from 1905 to 1974; and a detailed history of Stowe by Mr George Clarke and the present writer published in instalments in the Stoic (Stowe School Magazine) has been completed in July 1977. For a comprehensive pictorial record before the family sold up, one can turn to Messrs Jackson-Stops's sale catalogue of 1922. However, it is felt that students of English architecture and garden design will find it helpful to have briefly set out the authorship of the various elements of the house and the garden buildings and that is what this catalogue is intended to do.