Excerpt from Old Cottages, Farm Houses, and Other Half-Timber Buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Cheshire: Illustrated on One Hundred Plates Reproduced in Collotype From a Special Series of Photographs When an author sits down to write 'a book he is usually justified in assuming that such of the public as may go the length of purchasing his work will proceed to read it. But in the present instance the writer is oppressed by an uneasy suspicion that the attractions of Mr. Parkinson's seductive photographs will prove sufficient for the majority of readers, who will be content to let the venerable subjects here repre sented tell their own tale in their own way, and will con sider the presence of a showman almost an impertinence. 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.