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George Virtue, 1842-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gold house on front board. Rear board detached. 29 cm. Corners bumped. xii, 342 pages including frontispiece (portrait) illustrations LXIII (63) plates (including plans). Internally, scattered spotting, generally good. Archer, 24.2; ppxvi.'of the most authoritative and popular treatises of the nineteenth century, many were largely or entirely devoted to domestic architecture, particularly John Claudius Loudon's 'Encyclopaedia of Cottgae, Farm and Villa Architecture' and Richard Brown's 'Domestic Architecture'. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

George Virtue, London, 1842, dated at foot of Preface, pp.iii-xii,342, portrait frontispiece and 63 numbered plates, possibly lacking half-title before frontis, otherwise all present as called for,. Very Good. 1842. Hardcover. hardback, large 4to, moderate foxing on several plates, otherwise clean and tight, owner's armorial bookplate, blindstamped brown cloth, gilt pictorial decs and titles, spine slightly rubbed, Very Good condition .

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1852 . Leather. Very Good. 12" by 9.5". None. A smart copy of Richard Brown's richly illustrated Victorian-era study of the history of architecture. First published in 1842, this is the work of Richard Brown, a Professor of Architecture and author of a number of architectural works.Illustrated with sixty-three engraved plates. Collated, complete.Among these plates are views of Tudor Halls, Pompeian Villas, Swiss Cottages, and Egyptian Pavilions.Brown's work features chapters on topics including: construction of chimney-flues; situations for country residences; the internal proportions of apartments; decoration of ceilings; laying of foundations; external proportions, and geometrical forms of roofs.From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University… Read More

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1852. ~Original brown cloth to boards. Rebacked in brown leather, gilt lettering to spine. 4to (23.5 x 29cm). Replacement endpapers cracked at gutters, but hinges sound. Mild scattered foxing. Lacking frontis. port. (as is common in 1852 edn). Profusely illustrated with 63 full-page plates and in-text illus, including numerous perspective views, ground plans, and elevations of different styles of domestic architecture, an eclectic selection including an 'Egyptian pavilion', a 'Chinese Casino', a 'Burmese palatial hall of assembly', a 'Venetian summer residence', a 'Pompeian suburban villa', and a 'Tudor' cottage, hall, and manor house. Also offers designs for an ice house, dog kennel, and orangery. Intriguingly, given John Soane's general dearth of imitators, including a glowing section on Soane and a design for a museum belonging to the 'Soanean class of architecture' (pp. 289-90). Richard Brown was a practicing… Read More

London : B. Quatrich, 1852-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Quarto ; 30 cm. Fine modern leather spine, with original boards. Fine binding and solid boards. Clean, unmarked pages. xii, 342 p., 63 leaves of plates : ill., plans. Profusely illustrated with architectural plans and charts. <br> This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

London: George Virtue, 1850 approx). Hardcover. Very Good-. Frontis. + 62 plates shewing a view of the house, often also a cross section in doll house style, a ground plan & details + text illustrations of the style of furniture recommended for each type of house.. Quarto half calf spine gilt and with contrasting title-label (rebacked with most of spine relaid, corners worn) xii+342pp titlepage continues "from the Choice of the Site, to the Completion of the Appendages. Also, Some Observations on Rural Residences, Their Characteristic Situation and Scenery; with instructions on the Art of Laying Out and Ornamenting Grounds; Exemplified in Sixty-Three Plates, containing Diagrams and Exemplars of the various Styles of Domestic Architecture, with a Description, and Wood-Cuts of the Appropriate Furniture, Garden, and Landscape Scenery of Each." Styles include Egyptian, Roman, Tudor, Stuart, French chateau, Florentine Villa, Swiss cottage, Oriental pavillions, Tudor Gate Houses, etc.also stables,… Read More

Bernard Quaritch, 1852-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine modern leather spine, with original boards. xii, 342 p., 63 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover.

London: George Virtue, 1842. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth with front cover illustration in gilt, recased with a portion of original spine laid-down. Very good.. 342 pages. 29 x 24 cm. Engraved frontispiece of the author, and sixty-three plates containing perspective views and ground plans, and elevations drawn to scale. Also includes garden and landscape designs, ice house and dog house designs. Glossary of Landscape-Gardening Terms. HITCHCOCK," Early Victorian Architecture," notes "Brown's book is typical of the sort of book builders' draftsmen leaned on in the 40's for ideas. The appearance of another edition of this as late as 1852 indicates that the demand for this sort of material continued through the whole Early Victorian period. ARCHER 24.2 . "A voluminous and authoritative treatise (this title) treated the subject in a comprehensive manner unprecedented in British architectural literature." COLVIN P.147. Minor, intermittent age-toning.