Country Architecture A Work, Designed for the Use of the Nobility and Country Gentlemen, Being a Series of Executed Works and Designs For Buildings Connected with Landed Property

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1874. Title continues: ..comprising Labourers Cottages, Labourers Institute, Mechanics' Dwellings, Entrance Lodges, Gates and Bridges, Gardeners' and Keepers' Lodges, Dairy and Laundry Cotttages, Smithies' and Farriers' Houses, Bailiffs' and Agents Residences, Stable Offices, Farm Houses, Farm Buildings, Village Hospital, Shools, School Mistresses' Houses, Curacy House and Country Residences." Original brown pebble cloth on boards with black titles over gilt background strip and gilt circular designs with 'Design With Taste Build With Strength'; black boarder trims, Country Architecture blindstamped to rear cover. Mild rubbing and faint dusting of a little soiling to cover. Bevelled boards edges. Edges: once possibly red now faded to moderate pink, when edges are fanned there is light foxing. Eps: small booksellers sticker: B.T. Batsford Architectural & Engineering Booksellers, London. Spine: head and foot with light bumping a few tiny splits. Just a few pages with the odd single or couple of small foxing and mostly to the margins, otherwise a nice clean contnet. 48 Plates and line drawings. Binding is almost As New. Large book: 320 x 255mm. First Edition. Hb. VG/None.