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Hardcover edition in fine condition. Dust jacket fine, with no marks. Pages clean and unmarked throughout. From my personal library. First published in Great Britain in 1997 by Parkgate Books Ltd, London House, Great Eastern Wharf, London. Text by Elizabeth Drury and Philippa Lewis. The Cottages of Britain: A Heritage of Country Living traces the architecture and enduring appeal of the British cottage through paintings, period photographs, and literary passages, weaving together the visual and literary record of writers and poets who found in the English countryside and its cottages a source of inspiration, retreat, and reflection. Rather than a purely architectural survey, the book reads as a cultural portrait of cottage life, drawing on the long tradition of English landscape painting and pastoral literature alongside more straightforward social and architectural history. 160 pages. ISBN 1-85585-342-6.