Kent Houses (English Domestic Architecture)
Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club, 1993. Hardcover. Light olive cloth, gilt letters on spine & front cover, sky blue & color illus. dust jacket, illus. flyleaves, 288 pp., 126 color plates, 180 BW plates, 126 BW line drawings. VG- (DJ shows slight aging along top edge interior; page edges are beginning to tan lightly; text and illus. are vivid.). Item #150811
ISBN: 1851491538
"Explains how Kent came to be the best endowed county in English for its houses which range from the lowliest of smallholder's cottages to the grandest of magnate's palaces. The story begins in the twelfth century with the earliest surviving stone structures and moves on to discuss Kent's sturdy timber-framed houses, the product of the legendary wealth of its famed yeomen. ... Chapters on the builders, the materials they used and the historical development of their houses up to the present day are followed by a Gazetteer which puts the buildings into a village-by-village context from Acrise to Yalding. ... [This book] will be a treasure trove for lovers of the county, a first-class work of reference for students and practising architects and a must for architectural historians." (dj).
Price: $53.00