Victorian Cottages (COUNTRY SERIES No: 27)

W&N, 1977-08-11. 1st Edn. 1st Imp. Thus.. Paperback. F/VG+/ND. Box X29 SOFTBACK ""COUNTRY SERIES NO: 27,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1997.* Publisher: Phoenix, Country Series..* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing ""A Devon Cottage,"" by Claude Strachan. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, no creases to boards or to hinge. Spine faded. Seems lightly used if at all. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE * Illustrations: Colour illustrations to virtually every page throughout.* Pages: 155 pp. text. iv pp. index & acknowledgements, further reading list & index at rear.* Product Description:- Country life was idealised by the Victorians into an exquiste rural idyll far away from the smoke and grime of the growing cities. Artists of the late nineteenth century sought to perpetuate this nostalgic vision, and their work found its greatest expression in the images of cottages and cottage life. Drawing on the watercolours of Helen Allingham, Myles Birket Foster and Charles Wilson and the writings of Flora Thompson and Thomas Hardy, Andrew Clayton-Payne describes the cottages themselves, how they were built and domestic traditions that determined the cottagers' lives..* This is a NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st./1st. thus with slight fade to spine reducing it to VG+.* 0