(HONORÉ, Edmond., ed.)   JARDINS ET COTTAGES.         Paris: Librairie de la Construction Moderne, 1926 -   1927.          A complete run of this ambitious French monthly magazine featuring photographic illustrations and drawings of significant contemporary villas and gardens. There are illustrated articles on the work of such architects and garden designers as Albert Laprade and Andre Lurcat, Leon Bailly, Charles Siclis, Joseph Marrast (a garden in Florida), Jean-Charles Moreaux, Jacques Gréber, Henry Redard, Guevrekian, Tony Garnier, and Pierre Legrain. Also, writing on modern villas and interior decoration are Mallet-Stevens, Henri Sauvage, G. Remon, B. Delisle and J. Ruhlmann. Of particular interest is an article on the Czechoslavian gardens of Josef Kumpan and a long article on the Chateau - Bijou designed by Jules Vacherot. The periodical ceased publication after the second number of its second year. Scarce.   Two volumes, 4to (30.5 x 23.4); (2) + 1-192 + 32, 33-60, 65-192 pp. with illustrations from photographs and drawings.            Original cloth backed boards with mounted cover illustration, lightly soiled; pp. 61-62 (from an article on "Intérieurs Rustiques") are lacking from volume 1, but present in a separate copy of this issue accompanying the set; pp. 61-64 (an article on porcelain chandeliers) has been removed from volume 2 (an erratum notice in a later issue corrects a misattribution of the designer of some of the items listed is this article and may have resulted in suppression of these pages when the journal was later reissued as a bound set); previous owner has made notations in pencil on several pages. $500.00

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