[Rarebooks] FS: How to Build Country Houses, 1869

[Bob Petrilla]

Jacques, D.H. THE HOUSE: A 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, unburnet brick, balloon frames, and the concrete
or gravel wall. With Numerous Original Plans.  New York: Geo. E. Woodward,
1869. Revised & Enlarged Edition. pp: 176, (4)publisher's ads; 123 plans
and views, some full-page; "Just published" ad for Woodward's National
Architect printed on pink stock and inserted after title-page. Bound in
green cloth, gilt-decorated spine title, yellow endpapers. 7.5" x 4.75"
Very Good condition.
[OCLC locates three holdings: Wesleyan U, Peabody Essex Mus, Penn State.]
$120.00

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