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The Englishman's house : a practical guide for selecting and building a house / By C.J. Richardson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1898 Richard
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, C. J. (Charles James), 1806-1871.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, Domestic--England.
- Architecture--Details.
- Architecture.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1898.
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding) -- 1898.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 504 p., [1] leaf of col. plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Edition:
- New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Chatto and Windus, 1898.
- Contents:
- A gardener's cottage. A small cottage or lodge. A picturesque cottage. A double cottage. A double cottage and village Sunday school. A huntsman's lodge or cottage. Concrete construction for building cottages
- A garden gate. A park lodge. An entrance lodge to a park. An entrance lodge and gateway to a park. A stove for an entrance hall. Queen's Gate Lodge, Hyde Park. On the foundation and basement walls of buildings, damp prevention, and fireproof construction
- A small country rectory. A small country house. A country villa. A double suburban villa. Village schools and reading room. A Roman Catholic chapel and schools. A bath house and summer room. A small country villa. A villa in the Old English wooden style. A garden summer house. A small country retreat, or French maisonette. An Elizabethan villa. A summer or garden villa. A decorated window. A sculptor's villa. A garden seat. An ice house. A suburban villa. Riding-house and stabling. A bachelor's house. The fireplace
- A lecture hall or literary institution. Encaustic tiles. Restoration of Castle Gunnarstrop, Sweden. Summer villa for the Count Kinski at Teplitz. Harrington House, Queen's Palace Gardens.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in royal blue cloth with image of house and architectural tools in gold, with border in black, on front cover. Text and image of house in gold and black on spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.
- OCLC:
- 5179100
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