An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings, from the cottage to the villa, including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings; several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools; with the requisite fittings-up, fixtures, and furniture; and appropriate offices, gardens, and garden scenery; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of architectural science and taste on which it is composed
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings, from the cottage to the villa, including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings; several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools; with the requisite fittings-up, fixtures, and furniture; and appropriate offices, gardens, and garden scenery; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of architectural science and taste on which it is composed
Classmark: Bedford Collection A097
Creator(s): Loudon, J C (1783-1843)
Additional creator(s): Loudon, J C (1783-1843) (Other); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Plowman, Henry George Aram (1825-1877) (Former owner)
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, and sold by John Weale, At the Architectural Library, High Holborn
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1836
Language: English
Size and medium: xx, 1306
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/722731
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019672749105181
Description
Includes index.
Bedford Collection A097 copy incomplete, contains xx, and all the furniture material from pages 913-920; 961-1056; 1059-1138.
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A097: two loose excerpts from sale catalogues for this item, no. 156; loose bookmark with Plowman's inscription, sums and sketch marks in pencil.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A097: contemporary half black sheepskin [roan], marbled paper over boards, worn.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A097: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FoA/1. MS. inscription on front pastedown: Henry GA Plowman Cabinet Maker Wells 1850 [i.e. Henry George Aram Plowman (1825-1877), cabinet-maker, Wells, Norfolk, son of George Aram Plowman (1791-1874)]. Blank leaves at the end contain 26 original drawings and sketches of furniture by Plowman in pencil, pen and ink and/or water colour.
Access and usage
Access
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