The Growth of the ENGLISH HOUSE _WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND. Illustrated by a Series of Views and Details from Buildings erected between the years 1560 and 1635, with Historical and Critical Text. Containing 145 folio Plates reproduced from Photographs, together with measured drawings, plans, details, &c., dispersed throughout the text. 2 vols., large folio, in cloth portfolios, gilt, $50.00 net; or 2 vols., handsomely bound in half morocco, gilt, $60.00 net. “A work of national importance. Though these halls are with us now, it would be rash to say that we shall have them for ever, but while these volumes remain we shall always have _a splendid memorial of the most splendid remains of the England of the past._”--_The Daily News._ EARLY RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND. An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Development of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean Periods, 1500–1625. With 87 Collotype and other Plates and 230 Illustrations in the Text from Drawings by various accomplished Draughtsmen, and from Photographs specially taken. Medium 8vo. $9.00 net. This work is quite independent and distinct, both in plan and illustration, from the author’s larger work, and is in no sense a reduced or cheaper edition of it. Of the 317 Illustrations only about twelve are taken from the larger book. [Illustration: SHELDONS, WILTSHIRE.] The Growth of the ENGLISH HOUSE A Short History of its Architectural Development from 1100 to 1800 By J. ALFRED GOTCH, F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. Author of “Architecture of the Renaissance in England,” “Early Renaissance Architecture in England,” &c. London, B.T.Batsford New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons M CM IX _Printed at_ THE DARIEN PRESS, _Edinburgh_. PREFACE.