Book Description

Excerpt from The Architectural Review, Vol. 2: January, 1913 Successful houses, and How T o build them, by Charles E. White, Jr. 5 x 520 pages. 149 photographs. 39 plans. 216 drawings. Price, net. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1912. This book has a particular interest for the home builder or owner, as is indicated by the popular appeal of some of the chapter titles; while its great est value will be ih the large number of hints it contains as to such little considered but im portant details as garbage disposal, fireplace design, heating, electric lighting, etc. In the large number of illustrations, many prove to be of interesting and commendable houses, and many of the drawings are such as would be clear to an untrained reader. In general criti cism, the publishers have made a cumbersome volume by using an unnecessarily thick paper, which indeed does not show up the half-tone illustrations as well as might have been done on a thinner stock; but this does not necessa rily detract from its value to the home builder, and it should prove a popular book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.