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Town and Country Mansions and Suburban Houses. With notes on the Sanitary and Artistic Construction of Houses.
by Young, William
Publisher Information:
E. & F.N. Spon
London and New York
1879
This is a very good x-library copy in the original olive green bevelled cloth boards, elaborately decorated with an architectural scene in black and gilt. Library book plate on endpaper. Small faint handstamp to top right corner of all the plates. Preface and 43 pages of text and 5 pages of plate titles and descriptions + 30 full-page lithograph plates in black & white. The plates include full-page elevations, plans, and interior views of the panelling, fenestration, staircases, etc. All the mansions illustrated are large scale grand buildings in the Queen Anne, and other well known European styles:Jacobean, Louis XVI, Adams style, etc. The book has a new cloth spine, with a white printed paper title label on the spine. Inside the blue endpapers and many of the pages are chipped around the edges, but the binding is very tight. Paper tape repair to hinges. Page-edges gilt. 15" high X 10 1/2" wide.
Binding: H
Condition: Very Good
Book Id: 004121
Price: $150.00
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