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Published by Clarke, Irwin & Company, Limited, Toronto and Vancouver, 1964
Seller: COOK AND BAKERS BOOKS, PARKSVILLE, VANCOUVER ISLAND, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Page Toles [photographs] (illustrator). Dust jacket has darkened, light edgewear, text is very clean and well bound. Cloth covered boards, glossy pages, illustrated throughout. 8.5 X 10.5" 258 pages Weight Over 1 Kg (may require extra postage). From 1964. The Ancestral Roof is a vital cultural and social history of the period 1783 - 1867, enlivened by the anecdotes and myths which grew up around the houses, their owners and builders. The photographs have been complemented with line drawings, plans and elevations, the whole forming with the text a richly conceived, brilliantly produced work on the houses of Upper Canada.