Author: Stewart Dick
Title: The Cottage Homes of England
Description: London, Edward Arnold , 1909. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated book on English cottages, with colour illustrations by the noted Helen Allingham. The first trade edition. Also published as a limited edition in the same year.Illustrated by Helen Allingham with a colour frontispiece and sixty-three colour plates. Collated complete. This charming guide to the many different types of cottage homes in England, was written by Stewart Dick and illustrated by noted watercolour artist Helen Allingham. The work discusses many different types of cottages and styles, alongside their evolution, history and their depictions in art. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with fading to the spine, bumping and rubbing to the extremities, marks to the boards and spine and a minor closed tear to the cloth to the tail of the spine. Offsetting from tape from the myler sleeve to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with generally bright pages and light spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Helen Allingham. Very Good .

Keywords: Illustrated First edition Art Cottage First edition Stewart Dick Helen Allingham Helen Allingham


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