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Oikidia, or nutshells: being ichnographic distributions for small villas; chiefly upon œconomical principles. In seven classes. With occasional remarks. By Jose MacPacke, a bricklayer's labourer. Part the first, containing twelve designs.
Peacock, James, 1738?-1814.Date: 1785- Books
Tomorrow's houses : new building methods, structures and materials / edited by John Madge.
Date: 1946- Books
Utilization of space in dwellings / report presented by the Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Europe, prepared by M. B. Blackshaw in collaboration with P. Blokhine and M. Lebegge in consultation with the International Union of Architects.
Blackshaw, M. B.Date: 1959- Books
Ernst L. Freud, architect : the case of the modern bourgeois home / Volker M. Welter.
Welter, VolkerDate: 2012- Pictures
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Gate of the Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, London, surrounded by thatched domestic buildings. Engraving after W. Hollar.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.Reference: 35284i- Books
Houses planned for comfort and with special conveniences for invalids and the aged / by G. Gordon Samson.
Samson, G. Gordon.Date: [1934]- Books
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The rudiments of architecture: or, the young workman's instructor. In two parts. Part First, Containing The five Orders of Columns entire, with Frontispieces, Doors, Windows, Porticoes, Intercolumniations, and Arcades, suited to each; Rustic Doors and Windows; Block and Cantaliver Cornices; Rustic; Quoins; the manner of constructing Brick and Stone-Arches; Centuring for Groins and Vaulting; Stairs, Twisted Rails, Roofs and Domes; Inspectional Scales, Tables, &c. Directions for Drawing Plans and Elevations with Indian Ink: Likewise, the French and Spanish Orders. Part Second, Containing Geometry; the Mensuration of Solids and Supersicies; Plain Trigonometry, and Surveying of Land. With twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in North Britain. To which is added, the builder's dictionary : Intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend Teachers.
Date: M.DCC.XCIX. [1799]- Books
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The gentleman and farmer's architect. A new work. Containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs. Being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, Lodges for Parks, Pinery, Peach, Hot and Green Houses, With The Fire-Wall, Tan-Pit, &c. particularly described. Dutch, and other Barns, Cow-Houses, Stables, Sheepcots, Huts, Facades; With all other Offices appertaining to a well-regulated Farm; Their Situations rendered convenient, and Aspects agreeable. With scales and tables of reference, describing the several parts, with their just Dimensions and Use. Designed and drawn by T. Lightoler, Architect. And well engraved on twenty-five folio copper-plates.
Lightoler, T. (Timothy), active 18th century.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: Beginning With The Farm House, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent Villa; Calculated Both for Town and Country, and to suit all Persons in every Station of Life. With a reference and explanation, in letter-press, of the Use of every Room in each separate Building, and the Dimensions accurately figured on the Plans, with exact Scales for Measurement. By John Crunden, architect. The whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates, by Isaac Taylor.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: 1770- Books
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Grotesque architecture, or rural amusement; consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosques, Moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, &c. Many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The whole containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them. By William Wrighte, architect.
Wrighte, William.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]- Pictures
Carpentry: various types of joint (top), and "Henri IV" style half timbering (below). Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 40977i- Pictures
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Powis House, Great Ormond Street, London, in 1714. Wood engraving after T. Bowles.
Bowles, Thomas, II, active 1712-1767.Date: 1714-1876Reference: 38498i- Books
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Cottage building, or, Hints for improving the dwellings of the labouring classes / by C. Bruce Allen.
Allen, C. Bruce (Charles Bruce)Date: 1849-50- Pictures
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Two rural houses next to a stream; a woman and a child in the foreground. Lithograph by W.H. Pyne, 1806.
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843.Date: 1806Reference: 573336iPart of: Specimens of polyautography.- Books
Design and the production of houses / Burnham Kelly ; in association with Castle N. Day [and others].
Kelly, Burnham.Date: 1959- Books
Designs for homes : practical and decorative / by Grace Cope.
Cope, Grace.Date: [1934]- Pictures
A brick house with three gables, Well Street, Hackney, London, once used as a Priory. Engraving.
Reference: 35283i- Pictures
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The Tower House, Bedford Park estate in Chiswick, London. Colour lithograph by M. Trautschold, 1882.
Date: 1882Reference: 33615i- Books
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Ideal homes for the people : being a statement of the difficulties met with in building for the working classes in rural districts and particulars of a new, substantial and cheap form of construction which will be found to constitute a remedy / by George E. Clare, Walter G. Ross.
Clare, George E. (George Edward), 1868-Date: [approximately 1900]- Pictures
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The staircase, and two details of the woodwork, at 49 Great Ormond Street, Holborn. Pencil drawing, June 1882, attributed to J. P. Emslie.
Emslie, John Philipps, 1839-1913.Date: 1882Reference: 36078i- Books
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The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates; Plans of the Offices belonging to each Design, Distributed with a strict Attention to Convenience, Elegance, and Economy. Engraved on thirty-two plates, from designs drawn by J. Miller, Architect.
Miller, J. (John) (Architect)Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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A collection of designs in architecture, containing new plans and elevations of houses, for general use. With A great Variety of Sections of rooms; from a common Room, to the most grand and magnificent. their decorations, viz. Bases, Surbases, Architraves, Freezes, and Cornices, properly inriched with Foliages, Frets and Flowers, in a New and Grand Taste. With margins and mouldings for the panelling. All large enough for Practice. To which are added, curious designs of stone and timber bridges, Extending from Twenty Feet to Two Hundred and Twenty, in One Arch. Likewise some Screens and Pavilions. In Two Volumes. Each containing Sixty Plates, curiously engraved on Copper. By Abraha Swan, Architect. ...
Swan, Abraham.Date: M.D.CCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Rural architecture: consisting of regular designs of plans and elevations for buildings in the country. In which the purity and simplicity of the art of designing are variously exemplified. With Such Remarks and Explanations as are conductive to render the Subject agreeable. Illustrated with fifty quarto copper-plates. By Robert Morris, Surveyor.
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Pictures
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Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.
Isabey, Léon, 1821-1895.Date: [1867]Reference: 663742i- Pictures
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Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.
Isabey, Léon, 1821-1895.Date: [1867]Reference: 663743i