Excerpt from Architectural Styles for Country Houses Our friend who was about to build decides that the sub ject will bear deeper investigation, and postpones the execu tion of working drawings. It is an excellent thing, for most of us build but once, unfortunately, and the errors we fall into in haste we Shall live to repent at leisure. While the 'failure to include back stairs may cause us temporary in convenience, and may in time be remedied, the style of our house will abide with us for the rest of our days, and if we have chosen unwisely in our haste there is nothing about the whole structure that may become so insistently repellent. 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.