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The architecture of country houses; : including designs for cottages, farm-houses and villas. : Part I. Cheap cottages and farm-houses, adapted to the United States. : Illustrated with numerous engravings. / By A. J. Downing, author of "Designs for cottage residences," "Hints to persons about buildings," etc..
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1851 Downing
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--United States.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Country homes--Design and construction.
- Country homes.
- Farmhouses.
- Cottages.
- Building materials.
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.
- Physical Description:
- ix, [3], 253, [1] p. [20] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Cheap cottages and farm-houses adapted to the United States
- Downing's country houses part I, cottages and farm houses
- Cheap cottages and farm-houses
- Place of Publication:
- New York: : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway. ; Philadelphia: : Geo. S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street., MDCCCLI. [1851]
- Contents:
- On the real meaning of architecture
- What a cottage should be
- On materials and modes of construction
- Designs for cottages
- What a farm-house should be
- Designs for farm houses
- Miscellaneous details
- Hints for cottage and farm stables.
- Notes:
- Spine title: Downing's country houses part I. Cottages and farm houses.
- Scarce second printing of title first published in 1850; complete in part I only; part II never issued?
- Wood engravings by A. Anderson.
- Downing's last and best known work; nine editions were published between 1850 and 1866.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.
- Athenaeum also has copies of 1850 and 1854 editions.
- Athenaeum copy: 1851 edition complete in one part(?); Hitchcock, and other libraries report this edition as having full pagination of 484 p.; pencil note on t.p. claims that Part II was never issued.
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and embossed covers; boards nearly detached; tied; needs conservation.
- Athenaeum copy: Wanting plates XII and XIII; issued as such?
- Athenaeum copy: With bookplate of Hobart College Library on front paste-down.
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 326
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