Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. 1914. Some tanning and marking due to age in particular cover but pages are good and bright. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This suggested that a second and uniform volume dealing wholly with the treatment of old houses whether cottage or farm house or small manor house would be useful to the increasing number of people who like the atmosphere of age in their homes. A real responsibility rests on those who under- take the alteration of an old fabric for our buildings are an essential part of our national history. This is no less true of the cottage than of the palace. Our building traditions are as much indeed more a heritage from forgotten craftsmen as from William of Wykeham Master Yevele at Westminster and John of Gloucester who was King’s Mason at Windsor. Of such nameless folk we may use Solomon’s words with but a single change: “a poor wise man and he by his wisdom built the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.” To those who appreciate all the skill and subtlety of touch which were the outcome of the wisdom of old builders this record of the treatment of their handiwork is dedicated. I have to acknowledge the kindness of Mr. Basil Oliver who has lent me the photographs for Figs. I V VI and the plan in Fig. 47: of Mr. Batsford for his permission to reproduce that plan from Mr. Oliver’s Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia; and of Mr. H. Avray Tipping for allowing me to incorporate the substance of two articles by him in Chapters VIII and XXVI (MP)