The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens
by Hussey, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0907462596
- ISBN 13
- 9780907462590
- Seller
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About This Item
E-011: Antique Collectors Club Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 4to. Antique Collectors Club Ltd, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK. 1989. Xxii, 602 pages, illustrated with 172 plates. Facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1950. Reprint. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Exhaustive biography of architect Edwin Lutyens. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA (29 March 1869 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". EB; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 602 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67854
- Title
- The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens
- Author
- Hussey, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0907462596
- ISBN 13
- 9780907462590
- Publisher
- Antique Collectors Club Ltd
- Place of Publication
- E-011
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Biography;
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