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ABC/228
Title
Houses and Gardens, described and edited by Lawrence Weaver.
Date(s)
- [1913-1925] (Creation)
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1 volume
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(29 Mar 1869-1 Jan 1944)
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Scope and content
An in-depth analysis of houses and gardens by Sir Edwin Lutyens, with a description of each building and accompanying garden. It contains plans of the buildings to scale and a collection of photographs of the interior and exterior of each building. Buildings and gardens included are: Crooksbury; Ruckmans; Garden at woodside, Chenies; Sullingstead; Munstead Wood; Fulbrook; Orchards, Godalming; Goddards; Tigbourne Court; Littlecroft, Guildford; Overstrand Hall; The Pleasaunce, Overstrand; Deanery Garden, Sonning; Fishers Hill, Woking; Homewood, Knebworth; Abbotswood, Gloucestershire; Marshcourt, Hampshire; Grey Walls, Gullane; Little Thakeham, Sussex; Papillon Hall, Leicestershire; The Hoo, Willingdon; Daneshill; Monkton, Singleton; Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island; The Gardens at Hestercombe; Ashby St. Ledgers, Northamptonshire; Millmead, Bramley; The Dormy House, Walton Heath; Barton St. Mary; New Place, Shedfield; Heathcote, Ilkley; Copse Hill, Gloucestershire; Wittersham House; Whalton Manor, Northumberland; Lambay, Ireland; Temple Dinsley, Herts; Middlefield, Great Shelford; Chussex, Walton Heath; Knebworth Gold Club; Nashdom, Taplow; Great Maytham, Kent; The Salutation, Sandwich; Great Dixter, Sussex; Howth Castle, County Dublin; Folly Farm; Work at the Hampstead garden Suburb; Town Buildings; Designs for Public Monuments; Exhibition Buildings; Designs for Furniture; Appendix of Detail Drawing to Scale.
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Language of material
- English
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Corners and spine slightly scuffed