Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
Title:
Villas and cottages : a series of designs prepared for execution in the United States / by Calvert Vaux, architect, late Downing & Vaux, Newburgh on the Hudson ; illustrated by 300 engravings.
Published / Created:
New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1857.
Physical Description:
[6], xii, [1], 14-318, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA7120 .V38 1857
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engraved and illustrated half-title.

Wood engravings by Alexander Anderson, Pinkney, J.W. Orr, and H. Jewitt; after Calvert Vaux, A.J. Downing, F.C. Withers, J.W. Williams, J. McEntee, JWCW and C. Nichols.

Copyright 1857 by Harper & Brothers.

Added illustrated title and frontispiece included in pagination.

Last page blank.

Advertisement "Calvert Vaux, architect"--p. [319].

The plate is a chromolithograph (by Sarony, Major & Knapp) depicting "Specimens of encaustic tiles. For sale by Miller & Coates, 279 Pearl St. New York."

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original green cloth. Title and half title page vignette stamped in gilt on front cover. Blind-stamped on back cover. Inscription: J. D. Williamson, Jr. Aug. 1859.
Subject Terms:
Architecture, Domestic -- United States. | Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans. | Design and ornament -- United States. | Williamson, J.D. -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1857. | Chromolithographs -- 1857.
Contributors:
Vaux, Calvert, 1824–1895, illustrator. | Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815–1852, illustrator. | Withers, Frederick Clarke, 1828–1901, illustrator. | Williams, James W., 1815 or 1816–, illustrator. | McEntee, Jervis, 1828–1891, illustrator. | J. W. C. W., illustrator. | Nichols, C., illustrator. | Anderson, Alexander, 1775–1870, engraver. | Pinkney, engraver. | Orr, John William, 1815–1887, engraver. | Jewitt, Henry, engraver. | Harper & Brothers, publisher. | Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith., lithographer.