Cottage building, or, Hints for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes / by C. Bruce Allen.

  • Allen, C. Bruce (Charles Bruce)
Date:
1849-50
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cottage building, or, Hints for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes / by C. Bruce Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE. The Author would wish it to be understood that this little treatise does not profess to give all the informa- tion, practical or otherwise, necessary to the Cottage Builder,—as indeed no treatise, however extensive, can,— experience, as well as knowledge, being requisite for the successful practice of any art. It is therefore necessary to remind those who are too apt to conceive that the ability to practise any art fol- lows from their having read, however attentively, a treatise on the subject, that in whatever especially applies to their own business or profession, they would probably be very unwilling to admit that any one, by merely reading a book or two, could possibly be enabled to accomplish that which they are only qua- lified to execute after perhaps twenty or thirty years' study and experience. These remarks, which are applicable to other sub- jects as well as the one here treated of, are the more necessary at the present time, as several works already before the public on this particular subject, and others that are announced for publication, profess to give all