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Sketches for country houses, villas and rural dwellings : calculated for persons of moderate income, and for comfortable retirement : also some designs for cottages, which may be constructed of the simplest materials; with plans and general estimates / by John Plaw ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1800 Plaw
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, Domestic--England.
- Country homes--England.
- Country homes.
- Housing, Rural--England.
- Housing, Rural.
- Physical Description:
- 18, [2], [42] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, for J. Taylor, at the Atchitectural Library, no. 59, High Holborn, 1800.
- Notes:
- Two unnumbered pages following text are publisher's advertisements which include Plaw's Ferme ornʹe and his rural architecture.
- First engraved plate faces p. 6 and is so marked ; 41 numbered plates follow printed material.
- According to Janice G. Schimmelman, Architectural books in early America (item #107), the New York bookseller John Ward Fenno was offering this book in 1800, the year of its publication.
- Binding: Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: T.p. inscribed as T. Bird.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T102011
- Archer 261.1
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