Designs for cottages, cottage farms, and other rural buildings; : including entrance gates and lodges. / By Joseph Gandy ...
Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843)
Category
Books
Date
1805
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3157112
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], x, 28, [2] p., XLIII leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 4to. Imperfect: lacks leaf of publisher's advertisements. Shelved and uniform with Gandy's "The rural architect" (1805). Provenance: Circular stamp with initials T. H. Pencil note on flyleaf: Comp.t [?] Shelf B. Binding: Nineteenth-century full armorial straight-grained blue morocco over boards; gilt fillets and roll-tools to form a border; gilt spine, edges and inner border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp with motto ‘At spes non fracta’. Pencil note on flyleaf: “motto of Thomas Hope” [the work is dedicated to Thomas Hope - p. [i]]. Gilt roll-tooled silk endpapers.
Makers and roles
Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843), author Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843), architect