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Scott, M. H. Baillie.
Houses and Gardens.
Publisher: George Newnes, London;
Date of Publication: 1906
Stock Code: 15293
First edition. Quarto, pp., xvi, 247, [1], with tissue-guarded full-colour lithographic frontispiece, 15 further full-colour tissue-guarded plates, 76 black-and-white plates, numerous illustrations and plans within text. Wanting plate to face p. 157, otherwise complete. Publisher’s original green cloth; titled in gilt to spine and upper board; floral patterned end-papers. Spine sunned; gilt to upper board a touch rubbed; corners bumped; a few light spots of soiling to cloth. Spotting to tissue-guards otherwise internally clean. A good working copy. The important first edition of the account of Scott’s views on house and garden design. Scott wrote extensively in the architectural press on the design of middle-class houses. This was his first book ‘a detailed account of his ideas on house design and a fetchingly illustrated survey of his work’ (ODNB). Scott emphasised that the home was a refuge centred around the hearth, ornamented with designs drawn from nature. A scarce and influential work of house design. £225.00