Everyday life in Roman Britain

B.T.Batsford 1947. Inbunden med skyddsomslag, 124 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Illustrerad med svartvita teckningar och några färgplanscher. Språk: engelska. "You have probably passed through the english countryside in your car or in the train and seen the rolling hills, wooded slopes and green chequeworks of fields. The sleepy village grouped around its church - a glimpse of grey weathered stone beyond trees. The manor house set a little apart beyond old walls or yew hedges, representing centuries of peaceful proprietorship, just as the yeoman´s cottage or farmstead represents centuries of careful, patient husbandry. The dim church interior with its worn craftsmanship in stone and timber, Norman arch and Gothic carving - painted screen and alabaster tomb, its store of memories and associations. The cottage parlor with its traces of forgotten country crafts; or the comfortable hall of the manor-house, contrasting in its quiet domestic taste with the rich interior elaboration of greater houses - country palaces in which are accumulated the collections and treasures of generations of English patrons. These are some aspects of the heritage of England which may interest you or your friends overseas and wich are presented and illustrated in the many books published on these and kindred subjects by Messrs. Batford. Their books have a worlwide reputationfor perfection in printing, binding and illustration upon wich it is unnecessary to enlarge here; the press extracts in the pages of their catalogue tell their own stort. If you are interested in England, it´s scenery, history, architecture or any part of it´s great heritage."
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2008
C. H. B. & Marjorie Quennell
(* Another fine piece from the pen of Tony Woolrich, to whom I offer my thanks. Contributions to Bear Alley are always welcome.)

Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (1872?1935) and his wife Marjorie (née Courtney) (1883?1972) were the authors of a series of well-known illustrated history books for children which they wrote after the end of the First World War and which were still being re-issued into the 1980s.

Charles trained as an architect and set up in practice in Westminster in 1896. He designed numbers of houses, mostly in London and the Home Counties, as well as some churches. He was typical of his time; much into the Arts and Crafts movement. He drew together some like minded friends and formed the Lambeth Guild of Handicraft, making joinery, metalwork etc by hand. According to Charles?s brother, writing after his death, some of their work was for a church at Brith-dir in North Wales. This is probably Brithdir, Dolgelly, Gwynedd, Grade 1 listed, and a fine example of an Arts and Crafts design building. He wrote for Bells a guide to Norwich Cathedral and for Batsfords a book about modern suburban houses. He had the reputation of being a particularly skilful pen and ink draughtsman. He was specially interested in recording craftsmanship, particularly for buildings and fa