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Sketches for country houses, villas, and rural dwellings, calculated for persons of moderate income and for comfortable retirement : also some designs for cottages, which may be constructed of the simplest materials, with plans and general estimates / by John Plaw.
Fine Arts Library - Rare Book NA7562 .P6 1803
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--England.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Country homes.
- England.
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.
- Country homes--England--Designs and plans.
- Genre:
- Architectural drawings.
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Onslow, Richard William Alan, Earl of Onslow (bookplate)
- Onslow, Arthur George, Earl of Onslow, 1777-1870 (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 18 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates, 41 leaves of plates : illustrations, plans ; 30 cm
- Manufacture:
- [London] : W. Stratford.
- Place of Publication:
- London : J. Taylor, 1803.
- Notes:
- Advertisement for books sold "[a]t the Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn": P. [19-20].
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate of Richard William Alan, Viscount Cranley (later 5th Earl of Onslow), on front pastedown; autograph of A.G. Onslow (3rd Earl of Onslow) on front pastedown; ms. inscription ("from the Library of The Earl of Onslow (6th)") in pencil on back free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 4375556
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