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; intersperced with some observations on Landscape Gardening by ... Author of Essay on Dry Rot, &c.
London: R. Ackerman, 1818. First Edition. Imperial 8vo, pp. [109]. Illustrated with 27 colored aquatint plates. Bound in contemporary diced calf, later leather back, rubbed, inner joints strengthened, some foxing and minor soiling. Clean fresh sheets and bright plates. Bookplates on front paste down, another removed from front free end paper. Abbey, Life 45; Tooley 359; Archer, 246.2; Colvin, p. 437. Item #33896
Papworth (1775-1847)was architect of the Duke of Wurtemberg, and worked at Claremont, Alton Towers, Kew Priory and elsewhere as designer of gardens and furnisher of ornamental buildings. In this beautifully illustrated book he demonstrates that even a modest cottage could be made beautiful with the application of the principles of proportion and form.
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