Mr. Jefferson, Architect

by Desmond Guinness, Julius Trousdale Sadler

No damage to linen hardcover, NO DJ, pieces cut and inserted, 1973, 172 pages loaded with photos and info. 8 3/4 By 11 1/4" The vigor and beauty, the practical simplicity of his architecture reflect the order and elegance of his genius as a statesman. Amateurs of American history as well as students of architecture will find much in these pages to enlarge their view of the man who was to become the third President of the United States and the first to be inaugurated in Washington, the great city he had helped to plan."

177 pages, Hardcover

First published April 13, 1973

About the author

Desmond Walter Guinness (8 September 1931 – 20 August 2020) was an Anglo-Irish author of Georgian art and architecture, a conservationist and the co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society. He was the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne, and his then wife Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).

In 1958, he bought Leixlip Castle, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland, where he lived with both his first wife, Princess Henriette Marie-Gabrielle von Urach, generally known as Mariga, and later his second wife, the former Penelope Cuthbertson, whom he married in 1984.