📚 Cottages

The small rural dwelling and its picturesque afterlife: the books that idealised it, the records of it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cottages in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Mémoires d'une portraitiste, 1755-1842	Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun	1835	69
	The poetry of architecture	John Ruskin	1873	34
	Villas and cottages	Calvert Vaux	1857	16
	The architecture of country houses	A. J. Downing	1850	14
	The English cottage	Harry Batsford	1938	11
	Woodward's architecture and rural art	George E. Woodward	1867	10
	An encyclopaedia of cottage, farm and villa architecture and furniture	John Claudius Loudon	1833	9
	Cabin Porn	Zach Klein	2015	9
	English cottages and farmhouses	Olive Cook	1954	8
	The economic cottage builder	Charles P. Dwyer	1856	7
	Cottage residences	A. J. Downing	1844	5
	The American cottage builder	John Bullock	1868	5
	Old cottages and farmhouses in Kent and Sussex	W. Galsworthy Davie	1900	5
	Old cottages, farm houses, and other half-timber buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Cheshire	James Parkinson	1904	5
	The village homes of England	Jones, Sydney R.	1912	5
	Log cabins and cottages	William S. Wicks	1929	5
	English cottages	Evans, Tony.	1982	5
	Modern cottage architecture, illustrated from works of well-known architects	Maurice Bingham Adams	1904	4
	The cottages of England	Basil Oliver	1929	4
	The Cottage Book	Edward Grey	1999	4
	Compact cabins	Gerald Rowan	2010	4
	Woodward's cottages and farm houses	George E. Woodward	1867	3
	The cottage homes of England	Dick, Stewart.	1909	3
	Cabins, cottages and summer homes	Bernard Sterling Mason	1947	3
	English cottages and farmhouses	C. Henry Warren	1948	3
	The cottage book	Richard Sexton	1989	3
	New Cottage	Katie Hutchison	2018	3
	Remarks on rural scenery	John Thomas Smith	1797	2
	Rural residences	John Buonarotti Papworth	1818	2
	Old cottages, farm-houses, and other stone buildings in the Cotsworld District	W. Galsworthy Davie	1905	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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