ABERCROMBIE, Patrick (editor)

The Book of the Modern House. A Panoramic Survey of Contemporary Domestic Design

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939.

Quarto, xl, 378 pages with 244 pages of plates (from photographs, line drawings, and plans) plus 6 colour plates and an errata slip tipped in at page v.

Cloth slightly flecked and marked, unevenly sunned around the spine, and lightly bumped at the extremities; top and bottom edges slightly marked; a very good copy.

Fourteen individual authorities contribute lengthy chapters on the country house, country cottage, town house, suburban house, working man's house, coastal houses, houses in Sweden and America by comparison, and the interior.

Item #144226

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