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...]