By Stewart Dick
London   Edward Arnold
10" by 8" xvi, 287pp
A strikingly bound first edition of this charming work exploring the beautiful architecture found in the English countryside, colourfully illustrated throughout.
By Stewart Dick

1909 The Cottage Homes of England

London   Edward Arnold
10" by 8" xvi, 287pp
A strikingly bound first edition of this charming work exploring the beautiful architecture found in the English countryside, colourfully illustrated throughout.
£895.00
: 3kgs / : 884P6

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

The first edition of this work.

Bound by W. H. Smith and Son LTD.

A charming guide to the many different types of cottage homes in England, a wonderful picturesque work on the charms of the country.

This work explores the beauties found in the villages and lanes of the countrysides of England. 

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and sixty-three colour plates.

Collated, complete.

Illustrated by the notable watercolourist Helen Allingham.

Written by Stewart Dick.

Bound without the publisher's adverts.

Condition

In a crushed half morocco binding with cloth to the boards, bound by W. H. Smith and Son LTD. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. Light spots to the fore edge. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the very occasional scattered spot.

Near Fine

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