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A HOME FOR ALL, OR THE GRAVEL WALL AND OCTAGON MODE OF BUILDING: New, Cheap, Convenient, Superior and Adapted to Rich and Poor.; Showing the superiority of this gravel concrete over brick, stone,and frame houses; manner of making and depositing it; its cost; outside finish; clay houses; defects in small, low, long-winged, and cottage houses; the greater capacity, beauty, compactness, and utility of octagon houses; different plans; the author's residence; green and ice houses; filters; grounds; shrubbery; fruits, and their culture; roofing; school-houses and churches; barns and out-buildings; board and plank walls; the working-man's dwelling; etc.; etc. by Fowler, O.S - 1856

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A HOME FOR ALL, OR THE GRAVEL WALL AND OCTAGON MODE OF BUILDING:  New, Cheap, Convenient, Superior and Adapted to Rich and Poor.; Showing the superiority of this gravel concrete over brick, stone,and frame houses; manner of making and depositing it;  its cost;  outside finish;  clay houses;  defects in small, low, long-winged, and cottage houses;  the greater capacity, beauty, compactness, and utility of octagon houses;  different plans;  the author's residence;  green and ice houses;  filters;  grounds;  shrubbery;  fruits, and their culture;  roofing;  school-houses and churches;  barns and out-buildings;  board and plank walls;  the working-man's dwelling;  etc.;  etc. by Fowler, O.S - 1856

A HOME FOR ALL, OR THE GRAVEL WALL AND OCTAGON MODE OF BUILDING: New, Cheap, Convenient, Superior and Adapted to Rich and Poor.; Showing the superiority of this gravel concrete over brick, stone,and frame houses; manner of making and depositing it; its cost; outside finish; clay houses; defects in small, low, long-winged, and cottage houses; the greater capacity, beauty, compactness, and utility of octagon houses; different plans; the author's residence; green and ice houses; filters; grounds; shrubbery; fruits, and their culture; roofing; school-houses and churches; barns and out-buildings; board and plank walls; the working-man's dwelling; etc.; etc.

by Fowler, O.S

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New York: Fowler & Wells, 1856. copyright 1853. Original Cloth. Good. pp: 192, (12) publisher's ads; two frontispiece views and two floor-plans printed in sepia, 32 figures (mostly floor-plans) in the text. Bound in blind-stamped decorated cloth, gilt view of a residence on the cover; tips rubbed, spine covering peeled off, otherwise a sound volume. 7.5" x 5"

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  • Edition copyright 1853
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  • Publisher Fowler & Wells
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1856
  • Keywords residential architecture; houses; residences; home building; octagonal structures

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NY: Fowlers and Wells. VG wraps. 1854. trade pbk. paperback. 4to . 192pp . NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. Recent Xerox copy of the original Yale U. Library copy, pages 2-up. Plastic comb binding. .
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New York: Fowler and Wells. Original blue cloth. Cover worn and stained, most pages with some dampstaining, but a decent reading copy, Fair. . Fair. Hardcover. 1854.
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A home for all, or, The gravel wall and octagon mode of building : new, cheap, convenient, superior and adapted to rich and poor

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Fowler & Wells. Used - Very Good. 1853. Orig. dec. cloth, 12mo, 192 pp., illus. Some edgewear to cloth, with fraying at head and heel of spine; minor but persistent spotting internally. First few pages with 1-in. tear at binding. Overall, quite sound and tightly bound. (Subject: Architecture & Urban Design.)
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A HOME FOR ALL or THE GRAVEL WALL and OCTAGON MODE OF BUILDING : New, Cheap, Convenient , Superior and Adapted to The Rich And Poor

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New York: Fowler and Wells , Publishers, 1854. Book. Illus. by author. Near Fine. Hardcover. Revised Edition.. 1st. Edition1854, Revised original red cloth hardcover with gilded blind stamped design and letters , 192 page book with 12 pages of the books by this publishers. Illustrated with drawings and plans in black & white . Condition : Near Fine ( Very Good Plus ) . Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.
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