Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period, 1750-1820 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Small Houses of the Late Georgian Period, 1750-1820Modern writers have in general been singularly reticent both with regard to the work and the authors of it, except in so far as the larger and more important buildings are concerned, and the smaller houses, as compared with the great town and country mansions, have for the most part been ignored. There are many reasons which account for this seeming indifference both in the professional and lay mind. Our renewed interest in the house and home dates from the later days of the Gothic revival, and, as a natural sequence, our attention was for a long time devoted almost exclusively to the earlier styles which were related to or in sympathy with it. This later work was in point of time too near the years of the revivalists for them to have felt much interest in it, and for the most part they regarded it with a scarcely concealed dislike, whilst we moderns, although we do not view it with the repugnance of our fathers, feel perhaps that it is not quite sufficiently hallowed by the sanctity of age or of a geographical remoteness such as might give it the glamour of the strange and foreign.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.