Rail Romances 1999

250pp illustrated. Purple boards, very good dust wrapper.. Biography of the author's uncle, founder of the well-known Bassett-Lowke model-making business in Northampton. Drawing on material from within the family in addition to wide range of documentary resources, Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1916 to remodel his house at 78 and Peter Behrens, to design his second home, New Ways in 1926 both of which are discussed in this book. The firm is significant in many ways not least of which are the models it produced for Abercrombie's London plans.