Houses of Noble Poverty : A History of the English Almshouse

176pp; illustrated throughout in black and white. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 4to. Lightly bumped spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, sun fading to top edge, very light chipping to edges, price unclipped. Outlines the development of Alms houses from their beginnings as medieval hospitals and adjuncts to the monastic system, through the Tudor and Stuart periods when they were provided by craft guilds and under the wills of country gentlemen, to Georgian and Victorian times where they became more urban in character and philanthropic in sponsorship. Published in conjunction with The Alms house Association.