The Country Gentleman's Pocket Companion, And Builder's Assistant, For Rural Decorative Architecture
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 1756
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 1756
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Author : William Halfpenny
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1753
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Page : 848 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Justices of the peace
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Author : John Archer
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
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While few historians would dispute the importance of the printed book in the development of domestic design in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, this is the first major study to trace the evolution of architectural ideas during the period by examining the literary output of architects. It is a work of extraordinary scholarship, based on an extensive search of dozens of major library collections, that will serve as a standard resource for researchers and librarians, book dealers and collectors. Most of the book is devoted to descriptions of hundreds of books and periodicals containing original designs for domestic structures. The earliest title described is Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1715), an important Palladian manifesto and the first book to illustrate a series of the author's own executed designs for dwellings, intended to redirect and reform British architectural taste, and the latest title is Supplement (1842) to John Claudius Loudon's Encyclopedia. Related materials on agriculture, landscape design, drawing, and perspective also are covered. Each entry includes a bibliographic description of all known editions and a commentary that describes and analyzes the text and plates, focusing in particular on the author's ideas and approaches to design issues. Appendixes to the principal entries provide a checklist of additional handbooks and manuals by important authors such as Crunden, Halfpenny, Langley, Nicholson, Pain, Richardson, Salmon, and Swan, and books showing domestic interiors. There is also a valuable short-title chronological list, and a list of printers, publishers, and booksellers. In a lengthy introductory essay, Archer discusses architecture and the book trade, the format and content of the books, and aspects of architectural theory and design-including ideas of "character" and "retirement," dwelling types such as villas, cottages, and row houses, model housing for laborers, and town and village planning. John Archer is Associate Professor in the Humanities Program at the University of Minnesota.
Author : Izaak Walton
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 1848
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Author : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385312795
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1756
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Author : James Wilson
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 28,47 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Fishes
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Author : Janice Gayle Schimmelman
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
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An annotated bibliography citing 147 books that influenced business and the built landscape in colonial America. Schimmelman (art history, Oakland U.) has updated and revised her 1985 publication that was part of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. Similar bibliographies have not ap