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Architecture. Le Corbusier-Saugnier, Vers une architecture, first edition, Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès et Cie, n.d. [1923], half-title, xi, 230pp, in-text illustrations, bound in contemporary tan half-morocco over grey papered boards by Mary Hughes (d. 1964; wife of the first owner), somewhat rubbed, preserving original preliminary blanks, 8vo
Provenance: 1) Henry Castree Hughes (1893-1976), architect and conservationist; bound by his wife Mary, autograph inscribed H C Hughes Grantchester 1924, and with his memorial presentation label presenting the book to; 2) Peter Bicknell (1907-1995), architect and mountaineer; his book label to pastedown; 3) his nephew Julian Bicknell (b. 1945), New Classical architect and designer of the Palladian Henbury Hall, Cheshire; his and his wife's pictorial bookplate to ffep.
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