The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages,farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating : with three hundred and twenty illustrations / By A.J. Downing ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.

Contributor:

Dornsife, Samuel J., Former owner.

Forbes, Elisha., Engraver.

Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, Engraver.

Carson, Robert H., Engraver.

Orr, John William, 1815-1887., Engraver.

Davis, A. J., Engraver.

Appleton, George Swett, 1821-1878., Publisher.

Craighead, Robert., Printer.

Craighead, Robert., Stereotyper.

Jocelyn & Purcell., egr.

D. Appleton and Company., Publisher.

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic.

Farmhouses.

Cottages.

Physical Description:

x, [2], 484 p., [33] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 23 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

New York : D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo. S. Appleton, M DCCC L [1850].

Notes:

"R. Craighead, printer and stereotyper, 112 Fulton Street."--T.p. verso.

Some plates misnumbered.

Includes engravings by: Elisha Forbes, J.W. Orr, Jocelyn & Purcell, Alexander Anderson, R.H. Carson, A.J. Davis.

Binding: full black morocco, spine with gilt lines and letters.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Painting the Town Victorian: Selecting Colors for Historic Buildings," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1996-1997.

Athenaeum copy: Inside frontboard inscribed as: Samuel J. Dornsife.

Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.

Cited in:

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 325

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), 339(a)

Winkler, Gail Caskey. Capricious fancy