Your House: The Outside View

Title: Your House: The Outside View
Genre: Home & Garden/Architecture
Author: John Prizeman (1930-1992); foreword by Richard Gloucester (1944-)
Publisher: Hutchinson of London, London
Series: A Blue Circle Book
Year: 1975
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover, with dust jacket
Provenance: Previous owner's name written in blue ball-point pen on first page. Also, written in pencil, a price and date (4/10/78; 12.50 crossed-out, 3.50 written below).
Chapter Title Examples: Colour Appreciation; Colour History; Building in Stone; Building in Mud; Rendering; Chimneys, Roofs and Gutters; Doors and Windows; Protective Treatments.
Opening Sentence: "The face of a house is the face of the man it was built for: it shows his character, tastes, interests, wealth, fears and aspirations more clearly than anything he may say about himself."
Random Passage: "17th-century farmhouse near St. David's in Dyfed on the south-west tip of Wales. The round chimney stack and large projecting fireplace are unique to this part of Wales, parts of Lake District, north Devon and Somerset."
Notes: If you're at all curious about the minute variations in dwellings of all shapes and sizes throughout England, this is the book for you. Prizeman explored the nooks and crannies of country hamlets and big cities, providing written descriptions alongside copious amounts of photographs and renderings. In all, six artists and ten photographers contributed to this labour-of-love effort.