Author: DEAN G.A.
Title: A Series of Selected Designs for Country Residences, Entrance Lodges, Farm Offices, Cottages, &c., Which have been Erected for H.R.H. the late Prince Consort, the Earl of Leicester, Lord Harris, Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam, &c., &c., under the Superintendence of George Alfred Dean, 1, Lancaster Place, Strand, London; and of Messrs. Dean & Yeoman, 22, Coney Street, York; With remarks upon Site, Soil, Ornamental Planting, Water, Drainage, Sewerage Construction, &c.
Description: London, Longmans 1867 34pp, 35 plates of which 2 in colour and several double page. 39x28, red-brown cloth with glt lettering. Cloth marked and bumped, spine pulled with a small closed tear, tissue guard on coloured frontispiece (plate 1) creased, a couple of pages slightly loose, contents good thus. Plans for elegant and sometimes expansive houses and out-buildings for aristocratic estates. Dean dedicated the book to the Earl of Leicester, whose Holkham Estate was reworked by the architect, with particular attention paid to the new buildings for the Earl's prize herd of Devon cattle.

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