Five Important Country Home Books 
American Country Homes and their 
Gardens 
Edited by John Cordis Baker 
I ntroduction by Donn Barber 
BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED 
A work of the Greatest Value to the bouse owner and the archi¬ 
tect. It contains drawings to scale of houses and gardens and 
many of the best examples in America, some of which have never 
before been published. 
To House Owners, Present and Prospective: 
This book is fascinating and invaluable. Every page stimulates 
an earnest desire to improve the old home and to develop the new. 
The most recent work of distinguished architects is shown, 
including Messrs. Carrere & Hastings; McKim, Mead & White; 
Wilson Eyre; Frank Miles Day; Lord, Hewlett & Hull; C. C. 
Zantzinger; Percy Ash; Charles A. Platt, Willis J. Polk; Donn 
Barber, and others of equal note. 
The book contains 228 pages printed in the very best manner 
on a specially coated paper, and is bound in rich green cloth, 
lettered and decorated in dull gold and inks. Price, $5.00 prepaid. 
Historic Houses and their Gardens 
Edited by Charles Francis Osborne 
Assistant Professor of the History of Architecture. 
University of Pennsylvania 
Introduction by Frank Miles Day 
Past President of the American Institute of Architects 
330 beautiful pictures from photographs and paintings accom¬ 
pany text contributed by the Countess De Le Warr. the Hon. Miss 
Sackville-West, Miss F. Acland Hood, P. H. Ditc-hfield, Geo. Walter 
Dawson and others. 
Country Homes and Gardens of Moderate 
Cost 
Edited by Charles Francis Osborne 
Professor in the Architectural School of the University of 
Pennsylvania 
NOT A BOOK OF STOCK PLANS 
Each design is the work of an architect of established reputa¬ 
tion and the photographs were taken after the house had been 
completed. Among the contributors you will find the well-known 
names of Cope & Stewardson, Frank Mead, Wilson Eyre, 
Elmer Gray, Charles Barton Keen, William L. Price, Ellicott & 
Emmart. Frank Miles Day, Grosvenor Atterbury, Margaret Green- 
leaf, Willis Polk and W. C. Egan. 
A PRACTICAL BOOK ON HOUSE BUILDING AND GARDEN 
MAKING 
Its illustrated chapters contain much valuable information for 
those about to build or to improve their home and for all to 
whom an attractive and comfortable house and garden at moderate 
expense is a matter of interest. 
200 INTERESTING PLANS AND PICTURES 
Of houses ranging in cost from $800 to $6,000. with text and 
descriptive notes. Printed on the finest heavy coated paper, care¬ 
fully bound in substantial cloth. Price, $2.00. 
Picturesque English Cottages and their 
Doorway Gardens 
By P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.G.II. 
With a preface by Ralph Adams Cram. 
A limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies, printed on heavy 
plate paper and bound in boards, half ooze leather. 
There is no more picturesque and charming phase of architec¬ 
ture in all the ages than the small English cottage with its 
inevitable garden. Mr. Ditchfield tells something of the historical 
side of this evolution of the cottage, describes methods of con¬ 
struction, the various types of roofs and chimneys, the designs 
and the flowers of the garden, the whole enlivened with interesting 
little bits of folk-lore. The book is full of inspiration for the 
home builder. 
112 pages, 147 illustrations 
Price, $2.00, prepaid 
Low-Cost Suburban Homes 
A book of 90 plans and photographs of houses that have been built at costs ranging 
from $1,000 to $10,000. 
DESIGNED BY LEADING ARCHITECTS 
Each plan is of a house actually built and is accompanied by photographs of the fin¬ 
ished house. In most cases the cost is given. Houses of frame, stone, brick, cement, 
shingle, stucco of many kinds, and on many sorts of lots, are included. 
The book is beautifully printed on coated paper and sold at the following prices: 
Art Paper Cover, Price 25 Cents Postpaid Art Vellum Cloth Cover, Price 50 Cents Postpaid 
McBride, Winston & Co., 6 West 29th Street, New York City 
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