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The architect, : a series of original designs, for domestic and ornamental cottages and villas, connected with landscape gardening, adapted to the United States: : illustrated by drawings of ground plots, plans, perspective views, elevations, sections, and details. : Vol. I[-II]. / By William H. Ranlett, architect.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Oversize 1853 Ranlett
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ranlett, William H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture, Domestic--United States.
- Architecture--Details.
- Architecture.
- Cottages--United States--Designs and plans.
- Cottages.
- Country homes--United States--Designs and plans.
- Country homes.
- Landscape gardening.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. ([2], 82 p., [1], 60 leaves of plates; 84, [4] p., [1], 60 leaves of plates) : plans, port. ; 39 cm.
- Other Title:
- Series of original designs, for domestic and ornamental cottages and villas, connected with landscape gardening, adapted to the United States
- Cottage & villa architecture
- Place of Publication:
- New York: : Published by Dewitt & Davenport, Tribune Buildings, and for sale by all the booksellers throughout the United States and the Canadas., 1853.
- Notes:
- Originally issued in parts.
- "J.P. Prall, printer, no. 9 Spruce street."--t.p. verso.
- Includes [121] plates with 60 numbered plates in each volume and a frontispiece port. of Ranlett in v.2. Plates lithographed by F. Mayer after designs by Ranlett.
- Added engraved title page in v.1 reads: Cottage & villa architecture.
- This edition not listed in Hitchcock's American architectural books.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy has accession numbers 3355-3356; first recorded in 1857 Carpeners' Company Libary Catalogue as nos. 294-295 and in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 517.
- OCLC:
- 232625155
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