Author: Woodward, George.
Title: Woodward's Country Homes.
Description: NY: Geo. E. Woodward, 1868. 1868. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt & in brown within decorative gilt panel on spine. The covers are rubbed, bumped & stained & the head & tail of the spine are chipped. vi & 188 pp. & 4-page publisher's catalogue. Small areas of the front endaper have been rubbed away, the top corner has been excised & there is a stain from an erasure; there is staining to pages 116-119; there are bookseller's stamps on the flyleaf & title. Illustrated in B&W with full-page & textual diagrams, architectural plans & drawings. Good.

"In presenting to the public a new work on Domestic Architecture, it is our aim to furnish practical designs and plans, adapted to the requirements of such as are about to build, or remodel and improve, their Country Homes.." [From the first chapter of the text]. Good .

Keywords: ARCHITECTURE; RURAL; COUNTRY HOMES; REMODELING; BUILDING; GEORGE WOODWARD; DIAGRAMS; PLANS; DRAWINGS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

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