COOKE, Arthur O.

[285] pp.

T.N. Foulis, Publisher

1920

First Printing

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An illustrated region-by-region survey of then-existing dovecotes (wooden nests for domesticated pigeons) in Great Britain. “What is the special interest of the subject? ‘Are not all dovecotes pretty much alike?’ it may be asked. The answer to this question is emphatically ‘No.’ It would be difficult to find two dovecotes quite identical in every detail, architectural style, shape, size, design of doorway, means of entrance for the inmates, number and arrangement of the nests. For these old structures, built in field or fold-yard, park or garden, date from long ago. They were designed and built by craftsmen gifted with imagination, who, though they worked to some extent upon a pattern, loved to leave their individual mark upon the thing they fashioned with their hands.”