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Lewis F. AllenRURAL ARCHITECTURE, BEING A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF FARM HOUSES, COTTAGES, AND OUT BUILDINGS....
New York: A.O. Moore, [ca. 1860]. 378pp. including twenty plates (including frontispiece) and numerous in-text illustrations, plus 12pp. of advertisements. Frontis. Contemporary cloth, stamped in blind, spine stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth sunned, light foxing on frontispiece and titlepage, else near fine. Item #WRCAM35729
Later stereotype edition of the work (originally published in 1852), it is "identical with the 1863 edition and may precede it in date" (Hitchcock). The designs show the influence of the Picturesque style, and most are actually in the style created by Downing known as the Bracketed Mode, which features board and batten walls, barge boards, ample verandahs, and molded chimney pots.
Price: $250.00