Rural Residences, Consisting of A Series of Designs for Cottages, Decorated Cottages, Small Villas, and Other Ornamental Buildings, . Interspersed with Some Observations on Landscape Gardening.

PAPWORTH, John Buonarotti.

Verlag: London, Printed for R. Ackermann, 1818

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WITH 27 HAND-COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. 106, [4] pp. with half-title and 27 hand-coloured aquatint plates, occasional light foxing, mostly to text or plate margins. Ownership note on t-p (Proprietà dell'Ing.re Balzaretto). Quarter green straight-grain morocco and paper. Gilt lettering to spine: "Case e giardini di campagna". Some light wear to the extremities of the binding. A very good copy. "The following designs for rural buildings, accompanied by some practical observations, were presented to the public in the "Repository of Arts," under the title Architectural Hints, during successive months of the years 1816 and 1817. The proprietor of that work having received such applications for the series of designs in a separated form, as induces him to re-publish them; further observations have been added to supply, in part, the many deficiencies which necessarily occurred from so desultory a manner of publication." (from the "Introduction", p. [v]). Papworth explained the reason for this book in this way: happy by-product of the designs having been published periodically is that they cover a large range of design: from small cottages for estate workers (including a garden, so that the uncultivated mind of the husbandman is kept occupied and out of the local village alehouse), through various cottage orné, a vicarage, a dairy, a fishing lodge, to perhaps the height of luxury: an ice house calculated for an embellishment to the grounds of a nobleman. Abbey, Life, 45; Tooley 359. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1653457931123

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Titel: Rural Residences, Consisting of A Series of ...

Verlag: London, Printed for R. Ackermann

Erscheinungsdatum: 1818

Einband: Rilegato

Zustand: molto buono

Auflage: prima edizione