B&W Illustrations; Practical Treatises on Geometry, Decimal Fractions, Mensuration, Trigonometry, and Carpentry and Joinery. Embracing All the Necessary Details, and Particulary Adapted to the Wants of the Less Experienced. Revised and Improved, with Additions of Villa and School House ArchitectureAuthor: Chester Hills. 1847. Second Edition. Hardcover. 1-16, [Author Hills was author of "The Builder's Guide, " an architectural pattern book published in 1846, which, like those of Minard Lafever, influenced architecture in the United States. It is a "practical treatise" on Greek and Roman style architecture. Two buildings influenced are in Rye, New York: Lounsberry and the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House within the Boston Post Road Historic District. , Henry Austin-Henry Austin was a prominent and prolific American architect based in New Haven, Connecticut. He practiced for more than fifty years and designed many public buildings and homes primarily in the New Haven area. His most significant years of production seem to be the 1840s and 1850s. 1-16. [Xvii]-xx, 17-96 plus leaves of plate pages. Bound in full period sheep leather. Rubbing to extremities. Spine ruled in gilt. Black morocco and gilt spine label rubbed. Marbled granite end pages. Some wrinkling. Scattered foxing
Title: THE BUILDER'S GUIDE A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON GRECIAN AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE, TOGETHER WITH SPECIMENS OF THE GOTHIC STYLE ALSO....
Edition: Second Edition
Location Published: Hartford, Printed and Published By Case, Tiffany and Burnham.: 1847
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Categories: Construction
Seller ID: 36857
