Architecture & Personalities. de Baker. Herbert - 1944

Country Life Limited. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1944. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; Dust jacket wrapped in a removable archival sleeve, the top 1/4 of the spine has been lost, otherwise only light rubbing and shelving wear to the edges with a small tear to the rear top corner; Boards bright and clean, bound in teal cloth with an embossed design, corners bumped, gilt titles bright; Internally clean, no ownership signature or annotation, generously illustrated with B+W plates, the previous owner has written Herbert Baker's dates (1862-1946) under his name on the title page, around six newspaper clippings of various obituaries have been loosely inserted; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy and clean copy.; 25 x 20 x 4 cm; 224 pages .

London: Country Life Limited, (1944).. First edition. Large 8vo. Publisher's cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, lettered and decorated to the upper board, dust jacket, price clipped. Frontispiece, illustration of a bust of the author which is also replicated on the upper cover of the dust jacket plus 182 black and white illustrations. Uncommon with the dust jacket, which is a little tanned on the spine and with slight loss at the head, else a very good copy. A wonderful record of the architect's work published two years before his death. Baker is best known for his designs for colonial buildings in South Africa, though he also closely collaborated with Edwin Lutyens in his work in New Delhi, notably the Secretariat Building and Parliament House.