1943 ZAj

Copies examined

British Library: Document Supply 3129.641800 4
Curwen Press: B76

Title page (including series)

[A]1r

AN ENQUIRY INTO | PEOPLE'S HOMES | A Report prepared | by | MASS-OBSERVATION | for | THE ADVERTISING SERVICE GUILD | The fourth of the "CHANGE" | Wartime Surveys | Published for the Advertising Service Guild by | JOHN MURRAY, 50 ALBEMARLE STREET, W.1

Imprint and date

[A]1v

. . . | March 1943

Collation

[A]6 B-Q8.

Pagination

[i-ii] iii-xxiv, 1-228.

Technical description

Demy 8o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 11pt. Times; line block diagrams; grey laid paper wrappers, printed up spine: ‘PEOPLE'S HOMES’, and at foot: ‘10s. | JOHN | MURRAY’, and on upper wrapper: ‘What sort of homes do British workers want? | How many rooms? What rents? and 1001 | other major questions are tackled in this | ADVERTISING SERVICE GUILD'S REPORT ON | People's | Homes | CONDUCTED BY MASS-OBSERVATION | [then divided into 2 columns by vertical rule; left column reads] This, the fourth national survey spon- | sored by the Advertising Service Guild, | deals with the problems which perplex | all those who have tried (and are trying) | to consider what housing policy should | be followed after the war. It is the most | exhaustive enquiry ever made into these | problems and provides data likely to | prove invaluable to architects, sociologists, | politicians, civil servants and thousands | of other specialists and technicians. | [Right column reads] Plans and Projects | Own or Rent? | Gardens | Town v Country | Flats v Houses | Lighting aand Heating | Hygiene | Travel and Shopping | [6pt. rule across foot of page] | PRICE TEN SHILLINGS’.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963