Donnington, Shaun Tyas 2003

viii + 176pp illus with 109 b/w plates and 20 colour image. 4to. As new with dust wrapper. Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of this architect's birth. Work of James Marjoribanks MacLaren (1853-1890). Pioneer in the design of Scottish Roughcast vernacular . This study covers his work in Stirling, London, Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and at Fortinghall in Perthshire where he was involved in the construction of a range of houses, village buildings and a hotel. The book sets his work in the context of his contemporaries including Mackintosh, Voyset, Prior and Lethaby. Fascinating study of an architect about whom few records survive.