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 theory & practice of rural architecture; interspersed with some observations on Landscape Gardening

Book Description

London: J. Diggens for R. Ackermann, 1818 [text watermarked 1816-1817]. Octavo. (11 x 7 1/2 inches). Uncut, half-title, final blank. 27 hand- coloured aquatint plates after Papworth. Original paper-covered boards (rebacked to style, later endpapers), modern green cloth chemise, modern green morocco-backed slipcase, lettered in gilt. The genesis of this important work is explained in the introduction: 'the following designs for rural buildings, accompanied by some practical observations, were presented to the public in the "Repository of Arts," under the title "Architectural Hints," during successive months of the years 1816 and 1817. - The proprietor of that work having received such applications for the series of designs in a separated form, as induces him to re-publish them; further observations have been added to supply, in part, the many deficiencies which necessarily ocurred from so desultory a manner of publication'. A happy by-product of the designs having been published periodically is that they cover a large range of designs: from small cottages for estate workers (including a garden, so that the 'uncultivated mind of the husbandman' is kept occupied and out of the local 'village alehouse'), through various 'cottage orné', a vicarage, a dairy, a fishing lodge, to perhaps the height of luxury: an ice house 'calculated for an embellishment to the grounds of a nobleman, and contain[ing] in its plan and section all the requisites to the construction of an ice-well' (p.99). Abbey Life 45; Archer 246.2; Brunet IV,9814; Prideaux p.347; RIBA vol.III,2428; Tooley 359

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