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Title: Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay: A Renaissance (2nd edition)

Author: Clough Williams-Ellis

Commentator: John St. Loe Strachey

Release date: April 19, 2010 [eBook #32048]
Most recently updated: January 6, 2021

Language: English

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Preface
Contents
Cottage Building
Publisher’s Advertising
Transcriber’s Notes

COTTAGE BUILDING IN
COB, PISÉ, CHALK & CLAY

publisher's device: COUNTRY LIFE

First Edition, September 1919
Second Edition (Revised and Enlarged), July 1920

see caption

Cob House built by Mr. Ernest Gimson, near Budleigh Salterton, Devon.

Frontispiece]

COTTAGE BUILDING

IN

COB, PISÉ, CHALK & CLAY

A RENAISSANCE

BY

CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

J. St. LOE STRACHEY

SECOND EDITION
REVISED AND ENLARGED

LONDON

PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICES OF “COUNTRY LIFE,” 20, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.2, AND BY GEORGE NEWNES, LTD., 8-11, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.2. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS