JOHN WOODFORDE - The Truth about Cottages. Fifty Types of Cottage Specially Drawn By Bertha Stamp.

New York, Augustus M. Kelley, 1970. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0678065284 Hadrback Hardback. First Edition. Wear to D/H. The truth about old copuntry cottages is that winthin living memory far too many were unfit to live in. At the beginning of the present century, when a farmworker's wage was rarely over 11s a week, an Oxfordshire cottager with nine children was driven to suicide by his poverty. Outside his cottage today may ben seen the present occupier's Jaguar. This book offers both a survey of cottage life since the seventeenth century and an illustrated reference section which deals, in chronological order, with fifty of the main types of old cottage met with today. The fifty types have been specially drawn by Bertha Stamp. Illustrated. 138 pp.