Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas, and other ornamental buildings, accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration, in the theory & practice of rural architecture :
interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening /
by John B. Papworth ...

Description

Main Author

Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775-1847.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for R. Ackermann by J. Diggens, 1818.

Subjects

Architecture, Domestic > Architecture, Domestic / Great Britain > Architecture, Domestic / Great Britain / History > Architecture, Domestic / Great Britain / History / 19th century.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural > Decoration and ornament, Architectural / Great Britain.
Country homes > Country homes / Great Britain > Country homes / Great Britain / Designs and plans.
Cottages > Cottages / Great Britain > Cottages / Great Britain / Designs and plans.

Note

Four pages of Ackermann's advertisements bound at end.
Plates are hand-colored etchings with aquatint, after Papworth's drawings.
Previously published in an earlier form in Ackermann's Repository of arts, 1816 & 1817. See p. [6].

Physical Description

106, [4] p., 27 leaves of plates : col. ill., plans ; 28 cm.

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