An essay on British cottage architecture : being an attempt to perpetuate on principle that peculiar mode of building which was originally the effect of chance : exemplified by fourteen designs with their ichnography or plans, laid down to scape; comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentleman; with various observations thereon; the whole extending to twenty-three plates / designed and executed in aqua-tinta by James Malton.

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Creator:: Malton, James, d. 1803
Title(s):: An essay on British cottage architecture : being an attempt to perpetuate on principle that peculiar mode of building which was originally the effect of chance : exemplified by fourteen designs with their ichnography or plans, laid down to scape; comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentleman; with various observations thereon; the whole extending to twenty-three plates / designed and executed in aqua-tinta by James Malton.
Additional Title(s):: British cottage architecture
Edition:: Second edition : with two additional plates.
Published/Created:: London : Published by Thomas Malton, No. 103, Long Acre; and to be had at Taylor's Architectural Library, Holborn; At Egerton's Military Library, Whitehall; and at Carpenter's, Bookseller, Old Bond Street, 1804.
Physical Description:: [4], 27, [1] p., 23 leaves of plates : ill. ; 37 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA7562 .M3 1804+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3428571
Classification:: Books
Notes:: First issued in 1798.
Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street.
Ilustrations by and after James Malton.
With a preliminary half-title leaf. Halr-title reads: An essay on British cottage architecture. T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court.
Archer, 197.2
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840 2017
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 36
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in blue-grey boards. Drawing in graphic and watercolor (copy of plate 23?) on blue paper tipped in preceding plate 23.
Subject Terms:: Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans.
Architecture, Domestic -- Great Britain.
Bensley, T. -- Printer.
Cottages.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1804.
Malton, T. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:: Aquatints -- 1804.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1804.
Contributors:: Malton, James, d. 1803. ill.
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