Buy this book on-line Hewett, Cecil A : English Historic CarpentryPhillimore, 1980 ISBN 0850333547
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338pp. B&W Illustrations. Neat ink gift inscription on front endpaper, Large 8vo, Very Good in Fine DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hewett, Cecil A : English Historic Carpentry. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. HEWETT,CECIL A.: : ENGLISH HISTORIC CARPENTRYLONDON.PHILLIMORE & CO. LTD.,1980. ISBN 0850333547.
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to spine/backstrip and near immaculate plain white eps.Qrto,v-xiv+1-338pp [paginated] includes contents+plates/
illustrations lists/tables,glossary, acknowledgements,biblio,author intro,8 chapters,appendices(6),conclusion,8pp b/w photographs comprising 12 photographs,
profuse b/w line illus mainly by author,
but other contributors too,an index,plus
[unpaginated] half-title+title pages.
Rarely can a new work on ancient methods of building construction have had such a broad spectrum of interest as this long-awaited magnum opus.Appealing,as it does, to every type of architectural historian, from the connoisseur of cathedrals to the vernacular 'barn and cottage' enthusiast, it also offers the first practical insight
into the structure and age of their homes and outbuildings for the many thousands of
owners of old buildings in Britain,most of
whom are likely to learn that their timber-work is appreciably older than was thought.Not least,the book will be a source of pride as well as inspiration to all who work in timber today in showing that the master carpenters of the past achieved their highest levels of craftmanship well before the master masons
and that they were equally the medieval architects.
Hewett first raised a storm of controversy,that raged in 'The Times' and
'The Daily Telegraph' in the early '60's, when he proposed dates for the barns at Temple Cressing 300 years earlier than the
official dating.Carbon-dating confirmed his victory and Professors Horn and Berger
said . . . 'Hewett has put ball-bearings under everything'.
Though many of the scholarly establishment clung to the conventional
wisdom,several,notably Dr. John Harvey, produced documentary evidence to back Hewett's views and through the '70's he
changed from the young man with wild theories to the accepted authority of 1980.He has shown that the methods of assembling timber buildings,particularly the joints used,follow a strict historical
sequence,as datable as ceramics.Now
recognised as the pioneer of a whole new technology in the dating of ancient buildings he is providing in this book the
definitive statement of his work,superbly illustrated by his own drawings.
Whether or not the reader of this book is
enabled to identify a pre-Conquest earthbound post,or to preserve for posterity a building of hitherto unsuspected antiquity,there can be no one concerned with ancient buildings who will not find his entire appreciation of old timbers transformed and illuminated by Hewett's approach,methods and discoveries.
There have been many books on old buildings,but as Hewett maintains,'the building is the document' and this is the book on how to read the evidence that is written in wood.
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