Old cottages & farm-houses in Surrey / illustrated on one hundred collotype plates from photographs specially taken by W. Galsworthy Davie, with an introduction and numerous sketches by W. Curtis Green (1908)
Green, W. Curtis (William Curtis), 1875-1960, Davie, W. Galsworthy · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 82
ither grace ofworkmanship orbeauty of design.Within recent yearsenlightened craftsmenhave set themselves tocarry on the traditionof the smith ; a fewwith such success asto reassure the most desponding lover of these crafts. Manuscripts from the tenth century onwards record ironwork,always of an… … fig. 90. AN ENTRANCE GATEWAY IN FARNHAM. 64 OLD COTTAGES AND FARM-HOUSES The common fittings about these old houses served—and wherethey remain still serve—to gratify the eye as well as honour themaker and his trade. Of household effects the most ingenious andmost ornate were the chimney cranes,…
Architecture, Domestic
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