Rural residences, consisting of a series of designs for cottages, decorated cottages, small villas and other ornamental buildings, : accompanied by hints on situation, construction, arrangement and decoration in the theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on landscape gardening / by John B. Papworth, architect, author of essay on the dry rot, &c. &c.
John Buonarotti Papworth (1775 - 1847)
Category
Books
Date
1818
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3070916
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 3-106, [4] p, 27 leaves : ill. (col.), plans ; 4to. Pagination: viii, [9]-106, [4] p., 27 leaves of plates. Pencil number on front pastedown: "1471". Pencil price on front pastedown: "£3=10=0". Pencil number at foot of front pastedown "63" (crossed through in pencil); additional pencil mark obscured by bookplate. Pencil note at foot of front pastedown: "Coloured" [i.e. coloured plates]. Pencil number on rear pastedown: "157". Ephemera: loosely inserted typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Manuscript inscription in nineteenth-century hand on front free endpaper: "Richard. I. Boyle". Late nineteenth- / early twentieth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Ivor A.B. Ferguson'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf, marbled paper over boards; sewn onto five recessed cords; gilt fillets on spine; black morocco spine label, gilt lettered: 'Papworth's Designs; rebacked (spine retained).
Makers and roles
John Buonarotti Papworth (1775 - 1847), author Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) , publisher