Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog Doré's Man of la Mancha

Doré's Man of la Mancha glows with the artist's own enchantment and humor

he was in many respects un-Victorian in his writing: his ideas looked both backward to the great supernatural tradition of Romantic fiction and forward to the modern age

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Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog Doré's Man of la ManchaAll across America during the great building boom of the early 20th century, one of the most popular sources for home building materials, fixtures, and trimmings was the Sears, Roebuck catalog for home builders. This fascinating volume, reprinted from a rare surviving edition of that remarkably comprehensive publication, offers a peerless view of how thousands of Americans approached the practicalities and aesthetics of homebuilding in 1910. A huge