J. St. LOE STRACHEY
SECOND EDITION
REVISED AND ENLARGED
LONDON
PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICES OF “COUNTRY LIFE,” 20, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.2, AND BY GEORGE NEWNES, LTD., 8-11, SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.2. NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
MCMXX
[ AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION]
The exhaustion of the first edition of this book, within so short a time of its publication, makes it difficult to add much new matter for the reissue now called for, or, in the light of subsequent research and experience, to revise what had already been written.
Any book that seemed to show a way of meeting the present building difficulties, however partially, was fairly assured of a welcome, but the somewhat unforeseen demand for my small contribution to the great volume of literature on cottage-building is, I think, to be attributed chiefly to its description of Pisé-building.
Of the very large number of letters that reach me from readers of the book, quite ninety-nine out of every hundred are concerned with Pisé.