Cotswold Country+H J Massingham+133 Illustrations 1949

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This Auction is for a

Vintage

ILLUSTRATED

Hard Cover Book

4th Edition

* 1949 *

COTSWOLD COUNTRY

A Survey of Limestone England

From the Dorset Coast to Lincolnshire

By H. J. Massingham

 This hardback book comes to you in used condition

No Dustjacket

There is fading, bumping and wear to the red hard cloth covers

Some foxing and browning in keeping with age

CONTENTS  INTACT

120 Printed Pages

CONTAINS 133 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS / PLATES

CONTENTS: (Chapter Headings ONLY too many photos to list):

• CHAPTER HEADINGS:
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• THE LIMESTONE:
• Configuration and extent
• The Oolites
• Stone Colours and Craftsmanship
• Carving and Detail
• Comparison with chalk
• The Lias
• Building Triumphs
• Rural Crafts in Decline
• FROM BURTON BRADSTOCK TO MALMESBURY:
• Dorset:
• Cliffs
• Village Scenes
• Manors
• Sherborne
• Bruton
• Towers
• Somerset
• Nunney
• Norton St Philip’s Inn
• Bradford-on-Avon
• Locock
• Malmesbury Abbey and Town
• FROM BATH TO BIRDLIP:
• Villages
• Castle Combe
• Cricklade
• Fairford
• Great Coxwell Tithe-Barn
• Other examples
• Tetbury
• The Fascination of ‘The Edge’
• Owlphen Manor
• The Plateau
• Birdlip and Pisgah Points
• Bishop’s Cleeve
• Deerhurst
• FROM CIRENCESTER TO CHIPPING CAMPDEN:
• Cirencester
• The Churn Valley
• Northleach
• Norman Doors
• Bibury
• The Coln
• Winchcomb
• The Windrush
• Villages
• The Evenlode
• The Dickler
• Swells and Slaughters
• Chipping Campden
• Saintbury
• FROM CHIPPING NORTON TO GRANTHAM:
• Aynho
• Olney
• The industralised Nene Valley
• Lowick
• Geddington
• Northamptonshire Houses
• Rutland
• Warmington Church
• Stamford

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