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, farm--houses, villas, and out--buildings, of various cost and in the different styles of architecture etc., etc., and an appendix, containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco, rough--cast, etc., and instructions for roofing, building with rough stone, unburnt brick, balloon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall, with numerous original plans, designed by F.E. Graef, architect, and others / by the author of "The garden", "The farm," etc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacques, D. H. (Daniel Harrison), 1825-1877.

Contributor:

Graef, F. E.

Masters, Joseph E., Former owner.

Dornsife, Samuel J., Former owner.

Davies and Roberts., Stereotyper.

Fowler & Wells., Publisher.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Series:

Rural manuals no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic.

Country homes--Design and construction.

Country homes.

Physical Description:

viii, [1], 10-176, 4, 4, 4 p. : ill., plans ; 21 cm. (12mo)

Other Title:

How to build country houses and out-buildings

Place of Publication:

New York : Fowler and Wells, publishers, no. 308 Broadway, 1859.

Notes:

Series at head of title.

"Davies and Roberts, stereotypers, 113 Nassau Street, New York"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Publisher's ads at end: 4, 4, 4 p.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.

Athenaeum copy: Front pastedown is inscribed as: Samuel J. Dornsife.

Athenaeum copy: Front flyleaf inscribed as: Joseph E. Masters, Syracuse, NY.

Athenaeum copy: T.p. inscribed as: J. E. Masters.

Cited in:

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 628