English shop-fronts, old and new : a series of examples by leading architects, selected and specially photographed : together with descriptive notes and illustrations (1907)
Dan, Horace, Willmott, Edmund Charles Morgan · London: B.T. Batsford · leaf 24
thought enough of the shop-front togive it that elaborate richness of effect which made the adjunftsof their buildings so architedlurally abnormal. In the smallertowns and villages during the seventeenth century, the markedtendency in domestic work to overhang the several upper storiesof the… … Xu 6 ENGLISH SHOP-FRONTS OLD AND NEW. hid themselves under the concealing soffit of an upper proje6lingstorey. Many such projefting oriel shop-fronts are shown in the oldprint of Cheapside, or West Cheap as it was originally called(Figure 2), the date of which is about 1700. These oriel bays…
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