"HOME COUNTIES": Country Cottages: how to build buy and fit…

"HOME COUNTIES": Country Cottages: how to build buy and fit them up by MORGAN, Norman {introduction} < >

"HOME COUNTIES": Country Cottages: how to build buy and fit them up with a large number of photographs, plans and estimates of cottages and bungalows from £130 to £1300

William Heinemann 1905

xv + 218pp + xxiipp period ads for furniture etc. suitable for the newly erected house. Many black and white plates and line ills showing individual buildings, in some cases including a note of the designers. Includes much on the use of modern materials such as block building etc. Designers represented include Morley Horder, Clare and Ross and many others. Clare was particularly interested in building with hollow concrete blocks. Fascinating period publication catering for those who particularly sought to escape London including what the writers called "Weekenders". Two illustrations partially coming adrift from the binding. Arts and crafts lettering on cloth. Bookticket of Gavin Stamp on front paste down.

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