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Author: Loudon, J.C.
Title: An encyclopaedia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture :containing numerous designs for dwellings, from the cottage to the villa ... each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks, illustrative of the principles of architectural science and taste on which it is composed ... a new edition, with numerous corrections, and with many of the plates re-engraved.
Publication: London, Longman (etc) 1839.
Price: £540
Reference: 09969
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Thick 8vo. xx + 1138pp, including lxxvi + 2039 woodcut text ills, also xv + (1)pp adverts for Loudon's Architectural Magazine and 16pp adverts for other publications by the Longman firm bound in at end of volume. Contemporary quarter green vellum, marbled boards. Spine of binding slightly worn at head and foot and at outer joints, and sewing of binding a little weak (as often). A few minor marks on outer margins of pages early in the volume, but generally a good, fresh copy internally. Ink ownership inscription of G.Butler, 1844, and recent pencil ownership inscription of R.Wyatt, 1976, on front endpapers.
Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Cottage Architecture, first published in 1833, was probably the single most influential publication on house design which appeared in Britain in the second quarter of the 19th century, its thousands of illustrations and its meticulously numbered paragraphs of text serving as a source of information and ideas both for the British middle classes and for British settlers overseas in such countries as Australia and Canada. It was of no less value in providing guidance on how to furnish and decorate houses, cottages, and farmhouses, and on the proper planning and layout of their kitchens, stables, and outbuildings generally. The demand for it was such that this 1839 edition followed four previous editions issued in the 1830s, further new editions following in the 1840s, 1850s and 1860s.