Rare and Unusual Books

Published: Paris, Henri Jouve,
Date: 1904.
Description: vii, 285pp plus 33 figs mostly on single-sided plates. Preface by Charles Gide. Marbled boards with matching end papers, cloth spine and corners, 23x17. Pages little tanned, owner's stamp on fly, small old water stain top of couple of pages, good tight binding and nice plates.
Notes: This volume contains much on Port Sunlight, Bournville and similar model settlements, also a chapter on Garden Cities round the world. Benoit-Levy (1880-1971) was very active in the Association of Garden Cities of France, founded in 1903. He himself designed a number of industrial villages. He was also an advocate of Soria-y-Mata's Spanish Linear City ideas. Note, this is a different volume from the author's 1911 volume with a somewhat similar title (see below), which is more about Letchworth. All Benoit-Levy's books are now very scarce.
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Price: £300.00