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Detail, Cottage And Constructive Architecture Containing 75 Large Lithographic Plates.; Showing a Great Variety of Designs For Cornices, Brackets, Windows, Window Caps, Doors, Plazzas, Porches, Bay and Dormer Windows, Observatories, Towers, etc...
by Bicknell, Amos Jackson
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine
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About This Item
New York: A.J. Bicknell & Co, 1873. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine. Unpaginated. Folio, 35 x 27 cm. Seventy five lithographs plates (most with multiple images) plus lithographic frontispiece -- many plates are tinted, Included are forty-five perspectives, elevations and plans of designs for cottages with details, eighteen elevations of Summer Houses, Villas, Sea-Side-Cottages and Country Houses; together with fourteen designs for Street and Store Fronts, with Inside Finish for Stores and Banks. Seven pages of adverts including color lithographic examples of encaustic tiles (Minton floor tiles), bronzed hinges and door belts. HITCHCOCK 164. Plates clean, interior contents bright, sharp and clean. Hint of rubbing to backstrip head and foot.
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- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24131
- Title
- Detail, Cottage And Constructive Architecture Containing 75 Large Lithographic Plates.; Showing a Great Variety of Designs For Cornices, Brackets, Windows, Window Caps, Doors, Plazzas, Porches, Bay and Dormer Windows, Observatories, Towers, etc...
- Author
- Bicknell, Amos Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. pebble grained brown cloth, backstrip gilt designs bright and fresh. Front cover lettered in black. Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- A.J. Bicknell & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- American Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; American Art; Art Reference; Victorian; Design;
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- Folio
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