London For the Exhibition Committee 1911

150pp illus. with b/w plates, line ills including plans and elevations. xviiipp period ads for suppliers of interiors and fittings including Heals and William Whiteley's etc. 4to. Original wraps with colour image on front. Design on upper wrapper by Fred Taylor. Name of W S Brooks on upper wrapper in neat hand. Repaired with a new spine to make a very good copy. The spine has been lettered with the title of the book. Exceptional record of this suburb constructed in 1910-1911 on the Gidea Hll and Balgores Estates. It was promoted as an exhibition of contemporary town planning. This is the accompanying book. The project, including a new railway station and was promoted by a company founded by three Liberal MP's who had links with the Hampstead Garden Suburb. notably, Herbert Raphael, John Tudor Walters and Charles McCurdy. Known as the "exhibition houses" and set in their garden suburb the houses still survive and are fine examples of their time. Among the 100 architects who designed and built for the exhibition included C. R. Ashbee, M. H. Baillie Scott, William Curtis Green, Charles S. Spooner, Clough Williams-Ellis, Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Rare.