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The complete Lutyens memorial. Three volumes, all first editions. Three volumes folio. Each in the original green cloth, lettered gilt. Top edges red. Photographic frontispieces to each of the Architecture volumes, followed by reproductions of 338 architectural drawings, and 721 photographs. Portrait frontispiece to the Life, followed by 178 illustrations on plates. A handsome set, the books and their contents in fine condition.The definitive study of Lutyens's life and work, published six years after his death, which according to Gavin Stamp, asserted "the continuing relevance of his achievement".In his introduction to the Life, Hussey acknowledges that "In [Lutyens's] lifetime he was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior", and later argues:"the Thiepval Memorial, the Poultry bank, and the designs for Liverpool Cathedral constitute forward bases, of great cogency, established by Lutyens's genius as starting points for the advance of the Humanist… Read More
