The Growth of the
ENGLISH HOUSE
WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND. Illustrated by aSeries of Views and Details from Buildings erected betweenthe years 1560 and 1635, with Historical and Critical Text.Containing 145 folio Plates reproduced from Photographs,together with measured drawings, plans, details, &c., dispersedthroughout the text. 2 vols., large folio, in cloth portfolios,gilt, $50.00 net; or 2 vols., handsomely bound in half morocco,gilt, $60.00 net.
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EARLY RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND. An Historical andDescriptive Account of the Development of the Tudor, Elizabethan, andJacobean Periods, 1500–1625. With 87 Collotype and other Plates and230 Illustrations in the Text from Drawings by various accomplishedDraughtsmen, and from Photographs specially taken. Medium 8vo. $9.00net.
This work is quite independent and distinct, both in plan andillustration, from the author’s larger work, and is in no sensea reduced or cheaper edition of it. Of the 317 Illustrationsonly about twelve are taken from the larger book.
SHELDONS, WILTSHIRE.
The Growth of the
ENGLISH HOUSE
A Short History of
its Architectural Development from
1100 to 1800
By
J. ALFRED GOTCH,
F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A.
Author of “Architecture of the Renaissance in England,”
“Early Renaissance Architecture in England,” &c.
London, B.T.Batsford
New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons
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Printed at The Darien Press, Edinburgh.
PREFACE.
The object aimed at in the following pages is to tell the story of thegrowth of the English house from its first appearance in a permanentform down to the time of our grandfathers, when it lost much of itsinterest. Although it is a history of domestic architecture, no deeparchitectural knowledge is required to understand it; technical termsare avoided as far as may be, and of such as are used a glossarywill be found at the end of the volume. The reader unacquainted witharchitecture will be able to follow the story without difficulty; buthe who already knows something of our English buildings will of coursebe better able to link it up with the general development of Englisharchitecture. It is the main stream of progress which is followed, butthere are many pleasant backwaters and interesting tributaries whichit is impossible to explore in the space at command. Those who aredesirous of pursuing the subject more minutely will have no difficultyin finding books dealing with particular periods—Mediæval, Tudor,Early Rena