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A book of cottages and little houses : for landlords, architects, builders and others with suggestions as to cost, the housing difficulty and the improvement of taste in these matters (1906)

Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, author, Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876-1938, illustrator, Essex House Press, printer, B.T. Batsford Ltd., publisher · [London] : Printed at the Essex House Press, & published by B.T. Batsford · leaf 99

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CHAPTER IV. ESTHETICS AND TRADITION IN RURAL BUILDING. … me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have lov’d the principle of Beauty in all things.” That is the attitude of mind with which the architect, the builder, should approach his work; and with this before us let us ask ourselves what do we mean by aesthetics and tradition in…

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