127 pages, indexed, profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage.The jacket is chipped at the edges, some repaired with sticky tape; it suffers from a series of short tears. The body of the book is in excellent codition, clean, unmarked and solid. "Federation style housing is a unique and fascinating period of Australia's architectural history. Although the Federation house borrowed styles from many countries and eras, from English Queen Anne to Art Nouveau, it had a distinctive nationalistic flavour - God Save the Queen and Advance Australia Fair at the same time. This book is more than a mere series of pictures and descriptions. It gives advice to owners and would-be owners of Federation houses on how to restore them to their original glory, tips on specialised maintenance, and the names of experts who have the skills that may be needed."