Sketches for country houses, villas, and rural dwellings : calculated for persons of moderate income, and for comfortable retirement : also some designs for cottages, which may be constructed of the simplest materials, with plans and general estimates / by John Plaw, architect, author of Rural architecture, and Ferme ornée.

Main entry:

Plaw, John, 1744 or 1745-1820.

Title & Author:

Publication:

London : Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 59, High Holborn, MDCCC [1800]

Description:

18, [2] p., 41, [1] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Notes:
Publisher's advertisements on [2] p. following p. 18.
Signatures: [A]² B-E².
Two unnumbered p. following text are publisher's advertisements.
First engraved plate faces p. 6 and is so marked ; 41 numbered plates follow printed material.
A digital reproduction is available from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (UWDC).

Resources:
Online version

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic England.
Architecture, Domestic Designs and plans.
Country homes England Designs and plans.
Architecture domestique Dessins et plans.
Maisons de campagne Angleterre Dessins et plans.
Architecture, Domestic.
Country homes.
England.

Form/genre:

architectural drawings (visual works)
Architectural drawings.
Dessins d'architecture.

Host item:

Engineering Societies Library Collection (Library of Congress)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 38788
Call No.: W873
Status: Available

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