![WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd -- WIJDEVELD, H. Th. (editor). The Life-Work of the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Santpoort: C.A. Mees, 1925 [but 1926]. 4° (330 x 325 mm). Original cloth, sides printed in black (spine label mostly chipped away). Provenance: Frank Lloyd Wright (presentation inscription to:) -- Paul F.P. Mueller (1864-1934; engineer) -- Emilia Mueller (signature).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/CSK/2011_CSK_03013_0189_000(wright_frank_lloyd_--_wijdeveld_h_th_the_life-work_of_the_american_arc124803).jpg?w=1)
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WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd -- WIJDEVELD, H. Th. (editor). The Life-Work of the American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Santpoort: C.A. Mees, 1925 [but 1926]. 4° (330 x 325 mm). Original cloth, sides printed in black (spine label mostly chipped away). Provenance: Frank Lloyd Wright (presentation inscription to:) -- Paul F.P. Mueller (1864-1934; engineer) -- Emilia Mueller (signature).
FIRST EDITION. A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE ARCHITECT TO HIS BUILDER PAUL MUELLER: 'To P.F.P.M. comrade -- "in the trenches and over the top" -- from F.L.L.W. Taliesin Nov 1927'. Mueller realised some of Wright's major building designs, including Midway Gardens and Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. Acknowledging his debt to Mueller in his autobiography, Wright wrote:'it is exciting to him to rescue ideas, to participate in creation. And together we overcame difficulty after difficulty in the field, where an architect's education is never finished' (Wright). The Life-Work collects the seven issues of Wendingen dedicated to Wright, and is the first major publication on Wright's works since the Ausgeführte Bauten of 1910-1911. Sweeney 165; Wright, an Autobiography, p.144.
FIRST EDITION. A REMARKABLE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE ARCHITECT TO HIS BUILDER PAUL MUELLER: 'To P.F.P.M. comrade -- "in the trenches and over the top" -- from F.L.L.W. Taliesin Nov 1927'. Mueller realised some of Wright's major building designs, including Midway Gardens and Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. Acknowledging his debt to Mueller in his autobiography, Wright wrote:'it is exciting to him to rescue ideas, to participate in creation. And together we overcame difficulty after difficulty in the field, where an architect's education is never finished' (Wright). The Life-Work collects the seven issues of Wendingen dedicated to Wright, and is the first major publication on Wright's works since the Ausgeführte Bauten of 1910-1911. Sweeney 165; Wright, an Autobiography, p.144.