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Specimen book of one hundred architectural designs, : showing plans, elevations and views of suburban houses, villas, sea-side and camp-ground cottages, homesteads, churches and public buildings, : also several original designs for modern styles of mantels and furniture, prepared especially for this work..
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1880 Bicknel
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bicknell and Comstock.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans--Catalogs.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture--Designs and plans--Catalogs.
- Architecture.
- House furnishings--Catalogs.
- House furnishings.
- Physical Description:
- 80 p. ; ill., plans ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- 100 architectural designs price $1.00
- Bicknell & Comstock's specimen book of one hundred architectural designs
- Bicknell & Co.'s specimen book
- Place of Publication:
- New York, : Bicknell & Comstock, 194 Broadway., 1880.
- Notes:
- Catalogue of architectural designs available from Bicknell & Comstock (formerly A.J. Bicknell & Co.).
- Spine title: 100 architectural designs price $1.00.
- Running title: Bicknell & Comstock's specimen book of one hundred architectural designs.
- Cover title: Bicknell & Co.'s specimen book.
- First published 1878.
- "This little book will, we think, be especially valuable to two classes: those who wish a home, and those who build them for the purpose of investment."--Preface, p. 4.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in full green publisher's cloth with stamped publisher's logo and impression of silver dollar in the center of boards; gilt lettering on spine.
- Athenaeum copy: With bookseller's label on front paste-down: Wadsworth Bros. & Howland, artists' materials, Boston, Mass.
- Athenaeum also has copy of 1879 edition (Dornsife)
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 173
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