Lutyens Houses and Gardens. [The "Country Life" Library.]

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece photographic portrait (tissue-guarded) with numerous monochrome plates and illustrations to the text, largely from photographs but with a handful of plans of Lutyens designs and the F.J. Watson Hart drawing of the Cenotaph facing first page of text, title-page printed in black and red, pp. [iv], 203, 8vo, original quarter mid-green cloth with dark green boards, printed label to upper board, dustjacket with the Watson Hart drawing of the Cenotaph laid down to front panel, some tiny nicks around head, very good. Lutyens' eminence among contemporary architects, this work published shortly after his receipt of the Royal Gold Medal, had been - the Preface explains - consolidated by 'one little work - the Cenotaph', sufficiently recent for mention to be restricted to that introductory setting, through which he 'made joy in fine architecture a possession of the people' and 'an affair of national importance' (p. 1). This work goes on to describe his training and influences, including the association with 'his principal mentor, Gertrude Jekyll' (ODNB), and outlines his style and methods through numerous examples.…