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Author: (Wright, Frank Lloyd)
Title: The life work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with contributions by Frank Lloyd Wright, an introduction by architect H.Th.Wijdeveld and many articles by famous European and American writers. (Wendingen, vol.7, nos.3-9).
Publication: Santpoort, C.A.Mees 1925, 1926.
Price: £1,950
Reference: 09247
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Oblong folio. 7 consecutively paginated issues of Wendingen, containing in all 164pp, with many photo ills, also separately paginated advertisement pages. Original pictorial wrappers, tied at spines with raffia (as issued). Occasional slight wear to covers, but a pleasing set.
A good set, in their original part covers as issued, of the seven consecutive issues devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright in the periodical Wendingen in 1925/6. This was the first major publication devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural work since the great portfolios published by Wasmuth in 1910, and it includes text by Frank Lloyd Wright himself, as well as contributions on aspects of his architectural achievement by Berlage, Oud, Lewis Mumford, Mendelsohn and Louis Sullivan (who writes on Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo). It is also notable for its good photo illustrations and measured drawings of buildings by Wright, and for its pleasing typographical design by Wendingen's editor, H.T.Wijdeveld. It was Wijdeveld's intention that the issues should ultimately be bound up for publication in book form, but the part issue predates the bound volume and is therefore bibliographically preferable, especially as the part covers, attractively printed with a design in red, white and black, were omitted from bound copies.