VAUX, CALVERT. - VILLAS AND COTTAGES. A Series of Designs Prepared For Execution in the United States.
New York: Harper & Bros., 1857. 8vo, 318pp, frontisiece, 300 engravings, 1 chromolithograph plate featuring specimens of encaustic tiles. Gilt dec. cloth, soiled, soiling to endpapers, contemporary owner's labels otherwise a very good copy. ¶ First Edition. Vaux emigrated to America from England in the mid nineteenth century to work with A.J. Downing, and later with Frederick Law Olmstead on his design for New York City"s Central Park. Hitchcock 1304.
USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 116.75 | £UK 105.25 | JP¥ 15445] Booknumber: 3163.
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