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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...] |
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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 |
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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S. |
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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S. Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened |
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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S. Cropped version suitable for screen background |
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Hollingbourne, Kent A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched. [more...] |
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Letter T A decorative initial T from page 3, used as a drop cap, or capital. |
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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. |
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Tonbridge, Kent Sketch of an Elizabethan cottage in Kent. “Kent, Sussex and Surrey are three of the most delightful counties in England” |
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Biddenden, Kent Signed Sydney R Jones 1906. [more...] |
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Cranbrook, Kent Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. [more...] |
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Letter T from page 47 A decorative initial used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a chapter. The letter features an open casement window with two birds sitting on the top and another flying [...] [more...] |
