An encyclopaedia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture; containing numerous designs for dwellings, from the cottage to the villa, including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings; several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools; with the requisite fittings-up, fixtures, and furniture; and appropriate offices, gardens, and garden scenery; each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks, illustrative of the principles of architectural science and taste on which it is composed / by J. C. Loudon
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman; Treuttel, Würtz, and Richter, London; Treuttel and Würtz, Paris and Strasbourg; Black, Edinburgh; Carvill, New York; Gray and Bowen, Boston; Carey and Lea, Philadelphia; Howe, Sydney; and Melville, Hobart Town, 1833
Physical Description
xx, 1138 p., [42] pl.: wood-engr. illus.; 220 mm.
General Note
Information from the title-page, 'The designs by upwards of fifty different architects, surveyors, builders, upholsterers, cabinet-makers, and others, of whom a list is given.' Also, 'Illustrated by nearly one hundred lithographs and above two thousand engravings on wood.' - although there are in fact 84 lithographs printed on the recto and verso of 42 plates enumerated within the pagination. On the verso of the title-page is the printer statement, 'London: / Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, / New-Street-Sqaure.'
References
Royal Institute of British Architects, Early printed books, 2 (1995), no. 1961.
Archer, 184.7
Provenance
On recto of the second front endpaper is a handwritten note [by Nicholas Savage] made at the time of purchase in 2002, 'From the Library of Edwin Smith & Olive Cook.'
Copy Note
Bookseller's engraved label on front paste-down: Webb & Simms, / Book & Printsellers, / Exchange Buildings / Manchester.
Binding Note
Quarter bound in brown leather, marbled paper boards, spine labelled in gilt, 'Cottage Architecture' / J. C. Loudon / - / 1833'.
Subject
Architecture - Cottages - Villas - Farm Houses - [19th Century - 1830s - United Kingdom]
Furniture - [19th Century - 1830s - United Kingdom]
Garden Design - [19th Century - 1830s - United Kingdom]