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HOWARD, Ebenezer (1850-1928). To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1898. 8° (187 x 125mm). 7 chromolithographs. (Dampstain on the top and foredge and a very few margins.) Publisher's original red cloth, upper side lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt (spine sunned, sides and endpapers dampstained). Provenance: Miss Brown Smith (presentation inscription from the author).
FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY of this rare Printing and the Mind of Man title: the founding document of the Garden City movement, which established 'Town and Country Planning as a universally recognized obligation of government in the civilized world' (PMM). Inscribed by the author: 'To Miss Brown Smith, with the best wishes of the author, who has a very pleasant recollection of your interest in his project long before it had reached its present stage, & with his earnest hope that you may feel his aims are worthy of your best efforts being directed to their practical realisation. E. Howard Oct. 4 1898'. ABPC records only one copy selling at auction in 35 years. PMM 387.
FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY of this rare Printing and the Mind of Man title: the founding document of the Garden City movement, which established 'Town and Country Planning as a universally recognized obligation of government in the civilized world' (PMM). Inscribed by the author: 'To Miss Brown Smith, with the best wishes of the author, who has a very pleasant recollection of your interest in his project long before it had reached its present stage, & with his earnest hope that you may feel his aims are worthy of your best efforts being directed to their practical realisation. E. Howard Oct. 4 1898'. ABPC records only one copy selling at auction in 35 years. PMM 387.