The House: A Pocket Manual Of Rural Architecture: Or How To Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings; embracing the origin and meaning of the house; the art of house building, including planning, style and construction; designs and descriptions of cottages, etc.
by Jacques, D.H
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. navy cloth embossed in blind and gilt, front cover and spine gilt lettering bright and fresh. Very good
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ardsley, New York, United States
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New York: Fowler And Wells, Publishers, 1859. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth embossed in blind and gilt, front cover and spine gilt lettering bright and fresh. Very good. 176, (xii) pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. 123 wood engravings. With numerous original plans designed by F.E, Graff et al. Contains a pot-pourri of designs: a log cabin, a hexagonal house, southern, western Italian, English, suburban, gothic, symmetrical and semi-southern cottages; a circular planned house, a southern villa in the Palladian style, an octagonal gothic villa and numerous other unconventional types. Index. List of publisher adverts at rear. Text and engravings generally clean, slight rubbing to backstrip head and foot. Free front endpaper with scribbles. HITCHCOCK 628.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24107
- Title
- The House: A Pocket Manual Of Rural Architecture: Or How To Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings; embracing the origin and meaning of the house; the art of house building, including planning, style and construction; designs and descriptions of cottages, etc.
- Author
- Jacques, D.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. navy cloth embossed in blind and gilt, front cover and spine gilt lettering bright and fresh. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Fowler And Wells, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- American Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Art Reference; Americana; Design;
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ardsley, New York
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