Tlte "Country Life" Library of Architectural Monographs. 



HOUSES AND 

 GARDENS BY 

 E. L. LUTYENS 



Described and criticised by 

 LAWRENCE WEAVER 



Large crown folio (16 hy 11), bound i?i quarter buckram, 

 gilt, over 350 pages and 500 magnificent illustrations. 



25s. net 



Inland postage, lOd. extra 



THIS book is lavishly illustrated with photographs of about 

 eighty of Mr. Lutyens' most typical houses and gardens, 

 many of which have never previously been published. 

 Interspersed in the text is a large number of plans, and 

 there is an appendix of 22 pages giving a valuable series of scale 

 drawings of typical buildings. The subjects are accompanied by 

 descriptions and critical appreciations which incidentally throw 

 considerable light on the general development of the domestic 

 building of to-day. In all respects the book is the most important 

 and interesting monograph of the work of an architect 3'et pub- 

 lished. 



The Scotsman says : " Among the English architects \vho.=;e work has 

 saved modern domestic architecture from the reproach of merely handing 

 down the traditions of a lost art, none has done more or better work than 

 Mr. E. L. Lutyens. . . Mr. Lawrence Weaver has written a learned 



and judicious appreciation of the work of this busy and indefatigable master- 

 builder, which covers an extraordinarily large and varied field. To look over 

 the multitude of photographs brought together in this album and to consider 

 Mr. Weaver's reverent criticisms is to realise how, with mastery and versatility 

 in the most varied and opposed manners, and as happy with a pergola as 

 with a hall fireplace in a stately country house, Mr. Lutyens has yet a dis- 

 tinctly personal note of his own, none the less characteristic or charming 

 because it is English. The book has some five hundred delightful pihoto- 

 graphs, a hundred plans of liouses and gardens, and many detail drawings. 

 Architects and students of architecture will pronounce it valuable in itself 

 and of good promise for the series in which it appears." 



