Main entry:

Lafever, Minard.

Title & Author:

The modern builders' guide: / by Minard Lafever. Architect. ; Illustrated by eighty-seven copperplate engravings.

Publication:

New York: : Henry C. Sleight, --Collins & Hannay. Stereotyped by J.S. Redfield & Co., 1833.

Description:

146 p., 88 [i.e. 86], [1] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.

Notes:
Added engraved title page consists largely of the illustration of, and plan for a country villa designed by J. Gallier. Engraved by W.S. Barnard. "Plate printed by Wm. D. Smith."
Other drawings by J.H. Dakin, M. Lafever, and J. Rothhaas; engravings by W.S. Barnard, Wm. D. Smith, H. Fossette, and Wm. B. Folger.
Copyright 1833 by Henry C. Sleight.
"Sleight & Van Norden, print."--Title page verso.
Numbers 54-55 omitted in numbering of plates.
Checklist Amer. imprints 19671
Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 692

Subject:

Architecture.
Building.
Carpentry Details.
Construction.
Constructions (Sculpture)
architecture (discipline)
constructions (sculpture)

Form/genre:

architectural drawings (visual works)
Handbooks and manuals.
Architectural drawings.
Intaglio prints.
Dessins d'architecture.

Added entries:

Sleight, Henry C., 1792-1877, publisher.
Smith, William D., approximately 1800- printer of plates.
Gallier, James, 1798- illustrator.
Dakin, James H., illustrator.
Lafever, Minard, illustrator.
Rothhaas, Jacob, illustrator.
Barnard, William S., approximately 1809-1885, engraver.
Smith, William D., approximately 1800- engraver.
Fossette, H., engraver.
Folger, William B., engraver.
Collins & Hannay, publisher.
J.S. Redfield & Co., stereotyper.
Sleight & Van Norden, printer.
United States New York New York.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 85992
Call No.: ID:93-B177
Status: Available