The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, and farmhouses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating.

Main entry:

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852.

Title & Author:

The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, and farmhouses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, [1969]

Description:

xxiv, 484 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm

Notes:
Reprint of the 1850 ed., with a new introd. by J. Stewart Johnson.
Part I. On the real meaning of architecture ; What a cottage should be ; Materials and modes of construction ; Designs for cottages ; What a farm-house should be ; Designs for farm-houses ; Miscellaneous details ; Hints for cottage and farm stables -- Part II. What a country house or villa should be ; Designs for villas or country houses ; Interior finishing of country houses ; Furniture ; Warming and ventilating.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0486220036
9780486220031

Subject:

Country homes.
Maisons de campagne.
country houses.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136113
Call No.: W1024; ID:86-B8785
Status: Available

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