Atwood's Country and Suburban Houses

New York: Orange, Judd, 1871. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good/Near fine. 287 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Approximately 150 engravings, including model homes, floor plans and drawings. "Atwood's designs illustrate well the tendency at this period of American building to regard architectural style as a kind of overlay... There are designs in picturesque Gothic, rural Gothic, half-timber, ornamental semi-Swiss, Italian cottage, Italian villa." A very sharp, clean copy with no toning. KARPEL B241. HITCHCOCK 17.