. The peregrine falcon at the eyrie. LIFE Country Life Library of with Gardens for Small Country Houses,and The House and its Equipment. SMALL COUNTRYHOUSES OF TO-DAY Edited by LAWRENCE WEAVER. Second Edition now ready. Large quarto, bound in linen, gilt. Price 15/- net. By post (inland) 15/6. By post (Foreign and Colonial) 16/6. 224 pages and 300 illustrations. T HIS volume fills a distinctive place, because not only isthe picked work of more than forty of the best architects of the day shownby plan andphotograph, butit is discussedin detail, franklyyet sympatheti-cally.
. The peregrine falcon at the eyrie. LIFE Country Life Library of with Gardens for Small Country Houses,and The House and its Equipment. SMALL COUNTRYHOUSES OF TO-DAY Edited by LAWRENCE WEAVER. Second Edition now ready. Large quarto, bound in linen, gilt. Price 15/- net. By post (inland) 15/6. By post (Foreign and Colonial) 16/6. 224 pages and 300 illustrations. T HIS volume fills a distinctive place, because not only isthe picked work of more than forty of the best architects of the day shownby plan andphotograph, butit is discussedin detail, franklyyet sympatheti-cally. As thehouses illustra-ted, nearly fiftyin all, vary fromlarge cottagescosting ;{^6oo to dignified country homes costing ;/!;5,oco, all sorts ot internalarrangement and architectural and garden treatment are broughtunder review. To all of moderate means who contemplatebuilding or altering a country house, this book will be of theutmost A FINE BRICK HOUSE.(Reduced specimen illustration). Uniform with Small Country Houses of To-dayand The House and its Equipment. Gardens for Small Country Houses By GERTRUDE JEKYLL and LAWRENCE WEAVER. Second Edition. Revised and quarto, bound in linen, gilt. Price 15/- net. By post (inland), 15/7. By post (Foreign and Colonial), 16/7. 300 pages, and over 450 illustrations. THIS volume deals with garden design as a whole, withreference both to the proportions and architectural elements which govern a successful plan, and to right and artistic planting. The first seven chapters describe in detail some beautiful gardens of varying typewhich illustratethe solving of dif-ferent importantare the plantingplans by MissJekyll, whosereputation as adeviser of colourschemes is world-wide. In otherchapters the treat-ment of variouskinds of sites is (Reduced specimen illustration). disCUSSCd in detail with scores of plans and photographs of examples by well-knowndesigne
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