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The English house / James Chambers ; with illustrations selected and captioned by Alan Gore.
LIBRA - Furness Storage NA7328 .C53 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chambers, James (James Desmond Ross)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--England.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- England.
- Architecture domestique--Grande-Bretagne.
- Local Subjects:
- Architecture domestique--Grande-Bretagne.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wakeman, Rollin (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [1985]
- Contents:
- A form of shelter
- Medieval dwellings
- The Tudor age
- The first architect
- Designed to impress
- The rule of taste
- Spread of an ideal
- The town house
- Changes in taste
- Victorian confusion
- Return to the vernacular
- Towns and suburbs
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393022412
- 9780393022414
- OCLC:
- 11785423
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