Homes of the Past

156pp. Includes 59 illustrations from pen-and-ink drawings. Quarter-bound in brown cloth over brown paper-covered boards; grey ‘key’ on front, gilt titles on spine. Sun-faded spine, bumped ends. Bottom corners bumped, top corners lightly bumped. Top edge has several bumps. Red sprayed top text block edge. Free endpapers tanned. Page margins starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A sketch of domestic buildings and daily life in England from Norman times to the Georgian Age, with a proposal for preserving certain typical houses, each to be furnished as an example of its own time. . 4to.