Boston: Lee & Shepard Publishers. Very Good+. 1894. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 7 1/2 x 10 1/4; 211+ pages; Hard cover is red cloth with gold lettering on front and spine. All gilt edges, which are still very bright. Some light bumping and rubbing to covers. Tiny bit of sticker residue on front end paper. No DJ as issued. On a front page there is a tidy inscription, appears to be written with a fountain pen, dated 1895. Pages are clean and tight; illustrated with 41 b/w photographs. Drake was a prolific author. "One end which I proposed to myself in this book, besides presenting house and home historically, was to gather up as many distinct types of the colonial architecture of New England as possible, from the rude farmhouse of the first settlers to the elegant mansion of a later generation, as it seems to me nothing could give half so clear a picture of a century and a half of colonial life. It was this idea alone which could give cohesion to a series of sketches having little connection in themselves, except as recording fragments of history that had become scattered with the lapse of time". .

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Bookseller: Pegasusbooks.biz (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8602
Title: Our Colonial Homes
Author: Drake, Samuel Adams
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+
Publisher: Lee & Shepard Publishers
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1894
Keywords: Reference;, New England History;, Historic Architecture;, Historic Homes;, Architecture;, Residences;, Early American Architecture;, Massachusetts History;, Regional Architecture;

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....