This book is designed as a companion to the author's book about the association between Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll - "Gardens of a Golden Afternoon". Lutyens was a humanist who was involved in the lives of all his clients. The houses he built for them express his delight in life in their fusion of enthusiasm and inventive design. This book provides a fascinating insight into the work of this country's most important architect since Christopher Wren; it will also be an interesting portrait of his clients and the ...
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This book is designed as a companion to the author's book about the association between Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll - "Gardens of a Golden Afternoon". Lutyens was a humanist who was involved in the lives of all his clients. The houses he built for them express his delight in life in their fusion of enthusiasm and inventive design. This book provides a fascinating insight into the work of this country's most important architect since Christopher Wren; it will also be an interesting portrait of his clients and the social world of which he was a part.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Signed. By Author Signed by the author Jane Brown on the title page without dedication. Previous owner's elaborate gift inscription on front end paper. Otherwise would have been a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket slightly discolored. Blind stamp and gift inscription on front end pages.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First printing. Quarto. xii, 276 pp; 26 color & numerous b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine, a crisp, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket crisp and clean. A profile of Sir Edwin Lutyens' clients.
Jane Brown turns her real-life gardening art historical figures into people you wish you might have known. Much of our American plant knowledge is from the British, as is the art of garden design practiced by such as Lutyens in the Edwardian period. Readers will not be disappointed.
