HUNT T F - Exemplars of Tudor Architecture, adapted to Modern Habitations: with illustrative details, selected from Ancient Edifices; and Observations on the Furniture of the Tudor Period.

London, Henry Bohn 1841 viii, 200pp, 37 engraved plates. 30x24, half bound in green leather over green boards, glt text Slight rubbing to edges and spine, with small area of loss on the spine, bookplate on ffep and owners signature on title page (both John Madden, of Monaghan in Ireland), contents and plates very good, free of foxing. An important work in the picturesque movement, especially the early revival of the Tudor style. T F Hunt, c1791-1831, was an able architect and published several books on the picturesque Tudor style. He exhibited his architectural designs at the Royal Academy, including a house 'in the old English domestic style', to be erected at Sidney, New South Wales, 'for one of the principle government officers' [Colvin]. His designs in the present work are for country houses, halls and lodges and their furnishings. Good reference for the Tudor revival with excellent illustrations.

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