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Pictures from Old English Country Cottages, edited by Charles Holme [1848-1923], London Paris and New York, 1906
There is a (black and white) copy of this book on archive.org.
This book (and all that it contains) is out of copyright, because it was published jointly in the US and UK before 1923.
Title: Old English Country Cottages
Date: 1906
Total items: 35
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep Petersfield]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-OldEnglishCountryCottages/wm/big/040-Steep-Hampshire-q85-267x200.jpg "[picture: Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep Petersfield]")
Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep Petersfield
STEEP, HAMPSHIRE. From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale. [more...] [$]
![[picture: North Chapel, Sussex]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-OldEnglishCountryCottages/wm/big/036-North-Chapel-Sussex-q75-139x200.jpg "[picture: North Chapel, Sussex]")
![[picture: Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-OldEnglishCountryCottages/wm/big/102-Long-Wittenham,-Oxfordshire-background-wide-q75-319x200.jpg "[picture: Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)]")
Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)
A version of Wilfrid Ball’s painting of a thatched house in the English village of Long Wittenham made to fit a wide-screen or high-definition screen, for use as a wallpaper or desktop background image. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-OldEnglishCountryCottages/wm/big/102-Long-Wittenham,-Oxfordshire-q75-286x200.jpg "[picture: Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.]")
![[picture: ivy-covered crubling stone sundial]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Holme-OldEnglishCountryCottages/wm/big/044-overgrown-pillar-q75-140x200.jpg "[picture: ivy-covered crubling stone sundial]")
ivy-covered crubling stone sundial
This little woodcut of a pillar with a sundial (you can see the gnomon) covered with ivy and leaning to one side was used as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. Tempus Fugit. [more...] [$]
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