Description: Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company. 1905. Limited edition (626/2000), 4to, pp. 112, 30cm. Lovely calf boards with delicate gilt lettering on the front and spine. Edges are bumped and rubbed. Endpapers are a bit toned around the edges. Inside text is are clean. Profusely illustrated with b/w photos. A lovely edition. "It would be hard to exaggerate the value of these little English cottages from this aspect alone. At a time when the craft of building amongst Anglo-Saxon races had reached the nadir of its fall and the "classical" artifice, crude and crescent under Elizabeth; bold and over-blown at the hands of Wren and his school, had frittered itself away through the dying congelations of Anne and the Georges, reaching at last at the end of the XVIIIth century, a point below which there seemed no pit of further fall, the discovery of the typical English cottage was almost, in a way, like the finding of precious manuscripts preserved by the faithful monks from the wreck of the ancient world."
Price: 50 USD
Location: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Signed: No
Publisher: The John C. Winston Company
Subject: English Cottages & Gardens
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1905
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Limited Edition, Numbered
Author: P.H. Ditchfield
Personalized: No
Topic: English Architecture
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
