The ‘‘Country Life’’ Library of Architecture. 
Tue “COUNTRY LIFE” 
BOOK OF COTTAGES 
(Costing from £150 to £600) 
By LAWRENCE WEAVER 
Large octavo; Cloth, gilt. 
Price 5/= Ner. 
By post (inland), 5/5. Foreign and Colonial Post, 6/-. 
Nearly 250 pages and 300 Illustrations and Plans. 
HE word “cottage’”’ has been grossly misused, especially in the titles of 
books where it is often employed to describe country houses which cost 
thousands. Save for a few gate lodges the buildings illustrated in this 
volume are truly cottages and none of a greater cost than £600 is included. 
Full consideration has been given to cottages of all types—for the rural labourer, 
the estate servant, the smallholder, the clerk who lives outside the town, the 
“‘week-ender ” and those of limited means who want a permanent home of refined 
character in the country at the smallest possible cost. This book is indispensable 
to all estate owners, to everyone who contemplates building a cottage of any sort, 
and to all who are interested in Housing questions. 
Folio, Half-bound in Sheepskin. PRICE 15/- NET. 
Postage 6d. extra. 
THE FIRST & CHIEF 
GROUNDES of By JOHN SHUTE 
ARCHITECTURE 1563 
A facsimile edition, LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND NUMBERED 
COPIES, of this rare and important work, the first book on Architecture 
published in England. With a historical and critical introduction by 
Lawrence Weaver, F.S.A., Hon. A.R.I.B.A. 
ONLY A FEW COPIES REMAIN. 
A peculiar degree of interest belongs to Shute’s book (of which no more than 
five copies exist), not only because it is the first English work on architecture, but 
because of its large intrinsic merit. This reprint puts it for the first time in the 
hands of the student of the Arts. John Shute was not only the first English 
writer on architecture, but one of our first miniaturists and probably the first 
Englishman to engrave a copper plate. 
