The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones.) It tells of a venturesome effort to enact an Edwardian Utopia in a small town in the Cotswolds. The leader of this endeavour was progressive-minded architect Charles Robert Ashbee, who in 1888 founded the Guild of Handicraft in Whitechapel, specialising in metalworking, jewellery and furniture and informed by the desire to ...
Read More
The Simple Life (1981) was Fiona MacCarthy's first book, written while she was the Guardian's design correspondent (and before her acclaimed lives of Eric Gill, William Morris, and Edward Burne-Jones.) It tells of a venturesome effort to enact an Edwardian Utopia in a small town in the Cotswolds. The leader of this endeavour was progressive-minded architect Charles Robert Ashbee, who in 1888 founded the Guild of Handicraft in Whitechapel, specialising in metalworking, jewellery and furniture and informed by the desire to improve society. In 1902 Ashbee and his East London comrades removed the Guild to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire, hoping to construct a socialistic rural idyll. MacCarthy explores the impact of the experiment on the lives of the group and on the little town they occupied - tracing the Guild's fortunes and misfortunes, hilarious and grave, and the many fellow idealists and artists who were involved (among them William Morris, Roger Fry, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb).
Read Less
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $17.00, good condition, Sold by Bulrushed Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Moscow, ID, UNITED STATES.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. Good or better condition. Pages have scattered marks and notes, but completely legible, binding is good. Covers mostly clean, minor scuffing or stickers. Solid reading copies.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $17.70, good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $17.98, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published by University of California Press.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $18.18, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1992 by University of California Press.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $18.75, like new condition, Sold by mossback books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hartland, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by University of California Press.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
As New in As New dust jacket. 0520043693. Octovo hardcover, unworn unread and as NEW in AS NEW DJ. A fresh copy, unsullied. Back to the land movement and the making of the guild of craftsman, in the Cotswolds; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $20.00, like new condition, Sold by Abacus Bookshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsford, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by University of California Pre.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $22.63, very good condition, Sold by Fireside Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stroud, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1981 by Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $26.10, very good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by Faber and Faber.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Used-Very Good. VG paperback. 2009 edition with B&W illustrations; cover uncreased with slightly yellowed edges; a single crease to spine; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $29.44, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1988 by Lund Humphries Publishers.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0853315418.
Add this copy of The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds to cart. $34.00, like new condition, Sold by Abstract Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Indianapolis, IN, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by University of California.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 204 pages, b/w plates, illustrated end papers references, sources and select bibliography, index, 8vo; olive cloth. fine, near fine dust jacket.
