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Hartley Wintney: Unpublished, 1935. Family photo-album recording the Arts and Crafts Hampshire home and garden built for himself by the Scottish-born architect Robert Weir Schultz who lived there for 50 years. 116 photographs mounted in a commercially produced oblong photo album, 33x25cm, 'The Beaumont Album', Johnson London. Bound in deep reddish/black shiny cloth with silk ties through the spine. Bookseller's ticket of 'W E Baxter Lewes' on the front paste-down. The silver gelatin photographs are in a mixture of formats, early images 9x13cm with later snapshots a little smaller. 116 photographs appear through the album, a few loose, beginning with a portrait photograph of Schultz before the front door of the house now known as Weirs Barn, aged around 75, dating the album to the middle 1930s. The early pages of the album picture the arts and crafts garden at Hartley Wintney, a long semi-covered walk, statuary, before moving on to a sequence of images of the garden peopled by extended family… Read More