Author: DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE EQUIPMENT OF SMALL HOLDINGS
Title: Report of the Departmental Committee....to Inquire and Report as to Buildings for Small Holdings in England and Wales, together with Abstract of the Evidence, appendices, and a series of Plans and specifications.
Description: London, HMSO, 1913. pp122pp + c35 fold-out plates of model designs (plans, elevations, one plate with photos). Cloth. 34x22. Very good copy. Bound with two other official Reports ["Report of an Enquiry of the Board of Trade into the Earnings and Hours of Labour of Workpeople of the United Kingdom V. - Agriculture in 1907" (58pp); "Final Report of the Royal Commission [on] Human and Animal Tuberculosis. Part 1. Report" (54pp)] An important official Report. Christopher Turnor was Chairman of the Committee, members included Raymond Unwin and Henry Tate. There was much concern about the state of farm labourers' cottages. The designs shown on the fold-out plates are reminiscent of garden city cottages.

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