Jekyll Sir Herbert (3 results)

vi, 192pp, large fold-out coloured map. 34x22, original wraps. Two areas missing from spine, edges rather rubbed, contents generally good for fragile item. The annual reports of the London Traffic Branch were updates on progress on addressing the problems identified in the 1905 Royal Commission on the Means of Locomotion and Transport in London. A comprehensive scheme of improvements to all modes of transport was required. The maps are particularly good, but the text also includes lots of useful detail. This was the second annual report, completing the picture up to the end of 1908. Jekyll was the brother of the gardener and landscape architect Gertrude.…

viii, 175pp, four large fold-out coloured maps, one on two sheets. 34x22, original wraps. Front wrap detached, spine fraying and chipped, with missing pieces, maps intact and complete, fair copy of fragile item thus. The annual reports of the London Traffic Branch were updates on progress on addressing the problems identified in the 1905 Royal Commission on the Means of Locomotion and Transport in London. A comprehensive scheme of improvements to all modes of transport was required. The maps are particularly good, but the text also includes lots of useful detail. This was the second annual report, completing the picture up to the end of 1908. Jekyll was the brother of the gardener and landscape architect Gertrude.…

The noted English Army officer and aristocrat was noted as a civil administrator; as head of the British delegation to the Paris Exhibition in 1900, it was he responsible for commissioning Edwin Lutyens to build the British Pavilion; his sister was Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932), the famed landscape gardener, painter and promoter of the Arts and Crafts movement. Bold signature in brown fountain pen, heavy stock 4" X 2¼" card, n.p., n.y. Very good. Slight age toning. Nice example, near the top edge of the card.…