Old English Country Cottages (page 2/4)

Book Plate: Sproatt and Rolph

Sproatt and Rolph was a firm of architects based in Toronto; the bookplate (Ex Libris) is dated 1915. It shows a woman kneeling with a blueprint or plan of a building which is being [...] [more...] [$]

Title Page for “Old English Country Cottages”

Old English Country Cottages

Edited by Charles Holme

Offices of ‘The Studio,’ London, paris and new York, MCMVI [$]

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S. [$]

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened [$]

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background [$]

Hollingbourne, Kent

A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched. [more...] [$]

Letter T

A decorative initial T from page 3, used as a drop cap, or capital. [$]

Letter K

A decorative initial capital K from page 11. Judging by the carefully-trimmed shrubbery I’d say the initial was made for the book. [$]

Tonbridge, Kent

Sketch of an Elizabethan cottage in Kent.

“Kent, Sussex and Surrey are three of the most delightful counties in England” [$]

Biddenden, Kent

Signed Sydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site [$]

Cranbrook, Kent

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. [more...] [$]