The new builder's magazine, and complete architectural library, : for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of building: consisting of designs in architecture, in every style and taste, from the most magnificent and superb structures, down to the most simple and unadorned: together with the plans, sections and elevations, serving as an unerring assistant in the construction of any building, from a palace to a cottage. … Embellished with upwards of three hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. / By Andrew George Cook, architect and builder.
Andrew George Cook
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124715
Summary
Bibliographic description
xcv, [1], 106, 423 [i.e. 323], [1] p., CLXXVII leaves of plates : ill. ; 4to. Pencil annotation on title page: "Fraspa[?] / 1 floor / 6 Church [Road?]". Pencil annotation on p. 316 (second count) on the size of an Ancient Egyptian banqueting hall: "125 long / 70 wd". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early nineteenth-century full calf; gilt roll to form an outer border on boards; sewn onto recessed cords; gilt fillets and gilt tooling on spine; dark brown spine label, gilt lettered: 'Builder's magazine'; rebacked (20th century?), spine retained.
Makers and roles
Andrew George Cook, author John Carter (1748 - 1817), illustrator