The architect and his wife : a life of Edwin Lutyens / Jane Ridley by Ridley, Jane - 2002

London : Chatto & Windus, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-462) and index. Contents: Ch. 1. 16 Onslow Square 1869-1876 -- Ch. 2. Surrey 1876-1887 -- Ch. 3. Ernest George versus Gertrude Jekyll 1887-1892 -- Ch. 4. Munstead Wood and Barbara Webb 1892-1896 -- Ch. 5. Emily and the Lyttons 1896 -- Ch. 6. Engagement 1896-1897 -- Ch. 7. 29 Bloomsbury Square 1897-1900 -- Ch. 8. Country Life 1901-1905 -- Ch. 9. The Turn to Classicism 1906-1910 -- Ch. 10. 'The Shoreless Sea' 1910-1911 -- Ch. 11. India 1912-1913 -- Ch. 12. East and West 1913-1919 -- Ch. 13. 31 Bedford Square 1914-1916 -- Ch. 14. MacSack 1916-1920 -- Ch. 15. The Dolls' House 1920-1924 -- Ch. 16. Emily's Great Adventure 1924-1925 -- Ch. 17. The Elemental Mode 1926-1931 -- Ch. 18. The Torch of Humanism 1931-1937 -- Ch. 19. Lord Cough of Cough 1937-1944. Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer Sir 1869-1944; Lutyens, Emily Lady 1874-1964; Architects England ; Biography; Architects' spouses England ; Biography; Architects, British 20th century ; Biography; Architecture, British 20th century.