RURAL ARCHITECTURE: ILLUSTRATED IN A NEW SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR ORNAMEN

WHITE, John. RURAL ARCHITECTURE: ILLUSTRATED IN A NEW SERIES OF DESIGNS FOR ORNAMENAL COTTAGES AND VILLAS. Glasgow: John White/ Edinburgh: N. Bowack/ London: G. Herbert/ Dublin: G. Young, 1845. Folio. Later quarter calf, marbled boards. (iv), 62 pages, 90 plates. first edition. "Although many works have been published at various periods on Rural Architecture, and some of these possessing merit capable of affording a considerable degree of instruction, I have also endeavoured to add my quota, to do so in such a manner as to assist the amateur, as well as the profession draughtsman, convinced that works of this kind are often of great service to both the Architect and the Builder, in pointing out the proper methods in the execution of the various departments of work connected with the erection of Cottages and Villas." Little is known of White. Weinreb praises his work (justifiably) for their pre-Victorian delicacy and picturesqueness, suggestin that Wheeler and Calvert Vaux almost certainly knew them and that they were influencial in America. With twenty-one plans, with elevations, and considerable details. Very good.