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1. The union of architecture, sculpture, and painting; exemplified by a series of illustrations, with descriptive accounts of the house and galleries of John Soane ... By John Britton ...

The union of architecture, sculpture, and painting; exemplified by a series of illustrations, with descriptive accounts of the house and galleries of John Soane ... By John Britton ...
Creator:
Britton, John, 1771–1857
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
1 p. l., [v]-xvi, 60 p. col. front., ill., 21 plates (incl. plan) 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. A Merry Christmas to you.

A Merry Christmas to you.
Date:
[1880?]
Physical Description:
1 Christmas card : color illustrations ; 100 x 70 mm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts in possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, esq. ; assisted by his son, J. Adey Repton, F.A.S.

Fragments on the theory and practice of landscape gardening : including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts in possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written : the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts / by H. Repton, esq. ; assisted by his son, J. Adey Repton, F.A.S.
Creator:
Repton, Humphry, 1752–1818
Date:
1816
Physical Description:
xii, 238, [2] pages, [43] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 35 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The art of fair building: represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities ... By Pierre Le Muet ... Pub. in English by Robert Pricke ...

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Creator:
Le Muet, Pierre, 1591–1669
Date:
1670
Physical Description:
2 p.., 31, [1] p. 44 pl. (incl. plans) 40 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Elementary and practical instructions on the art of building cottages and houses for the humbler classes; an easy method of constructing earthen walls, adapted to the erection of dwelling houses ... To which are added, practical treatises on the manufacture of bricks and lime ... By William Wilds ...

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Creator:
Wilds, William
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
xxiv, 143 p. illus., VI pl. (incl. plans) 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Hints for picturesque improvements in ornamented cottages, and their scenery: including some observations on the labourer and his cottage. In three essays. Illustrated by sketches ... By Edmund Bartell, jun.

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Creator:
Bartell, Edmund
Date:
1804
Physical Description:
1 p.., [v]-xvi, 140 p. 6 plates (incl. front.) 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Hints on cottage architecture : being a selection of designs for labourer's cottages, singly, in pairs, and in groups with plans, elevations and estimates .../ by Henry Weaver.

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Creator:
Weaver, Henry
Date:
1848
Physical Description:
9 leaves : chiefly ill., plans ; 30 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Designs for lodges and entrances to parks, paddocks, and pleasure-grounds, in the Gothic, cottage and fancy styles; with characteristic scenery and descriptive letter-press. On twenty plates. By T.D.W. Dearn ...

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Creator:
Dearn, T. D. W. (Thomas Downes Wilmot)
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
4 p.., 19 p. 20 plates (incl. plans) 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. / By John Buonarotti Papworth.

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Creator:
Papworth, John Buonarotti, 1775–1847
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
110 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The mansions of England in the olden time / by Joseph Nash.

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Creator:
Nash, Joseph, 1809–1878
Date:
1839-1849
Physical Description:
5 volumes : illustrations ; 55 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Domestic architecture: containing a history of the science, and the principles of designing public edifices, private dwelling-houses ... Also, some observations on rural residences, their characteristic situation and scenery; with instructions on the art of laying out and ornamenting grounds; exemplified in sixty-three plates ... with a description, and wood-cuts of the appropriate furniture, garden, and landscape scenery of each. By Richard Brown ...

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Creator:
Brown, Richard, architect
Date:
[1842]
Physical Description:
xii, 342 p. incl. front. (port.) ill., LXIII plates (incl. plans) 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Designs for lodges and entrances to parks, paddocks, and pleasure-grounds, in the Gothic, cottage, and fancy styles, with characteristic scenery and descriptive letter-press. On twenty plates. By T.D.W. Dearn ...

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Creator:
Dearn, T. D. W. (Thomas Downes Wilmot)
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
4 p.., 19 p. 20 plates (part col., incl. plans) 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Hints on rural residences ...

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Creator:
Carlisle, Nicholas, 1771–1847
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[8], 107 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. An essay on the Roman villas of the Augustan age, their architectural disposition and enrichments; and on the remains of the Roman domestic edifices discovered in Great Britain. By Thomas Moule ...

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Creator:
Moule, Thomas, 1784–1851
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
viii, 179 p. front., plan 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. London's 'golden mile' : the great houses of the Strand, 1550-1650 / Manolo Guerci.

London's 'golden mile' : the great houses of the Strand, 1550-1650 / Manolo Guerci.
Creator:
Guerci, Manolo
Date:
2021
Physical Description:
xiii, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

16. English cottages / Tony Evans and Candida Lycett Green ; introduction by John Betjeman.

No cover image available
Creator:
Evans, Tony, 1939–1992
Date:
1984
Physical Description:
160 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

17. The Edwardians and their houses : the new life of old England / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.

The Edwardians and their houses : the new life of old England / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.
Creator:
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy
Date:
2020
Physical Description:
224 pages : illustrations (color and black and white) ; 27 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

18. The paradox of body, building and motion in seventeenth-century England / Kimberley Skelton.

No cover image available
Creator:
Skelton, Kimberley
Date:
2015
Physical Description:
xii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

19. The Tuileries brochures : a series of monographs on European architecture, with special reference to roofs of tile.

No cover image available
Date:
1929-
Physical Description:
2 volumes bound in one : illustrations ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

20. Beautiful houses; being a description of certain well-known artistic houses / by Mrs. Haweis.

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Creator:
Haweis, Mary Eliza Joy, 1852–1898
Date:
1882
Physical Description:
v, 115 p. front. 18 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

21. The Wakes, Selborne : a short architectural guide / by Gwyn I. Meirion-Jones.

No cover image available
Creator:
Meirion-Jones, Gwyn I
Date:
1979
Physical Description:
1 sheet (fold.) ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

22. The emergence of the interior : architecture, modernity, domesticity / Charles Rice.

No cover image available
Creator:
Rice, Charles
Date:
2007
Physical Description:
xii, 161 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

23. The lost house revisited / Ed Kluz ; texts by Tim Knox & Olivia Horsfall Turner ; foreword by John Harris.

The lost house revisited / Ed Kluz ; texts by Tim Knox & Olivia Horsfall Turner ; foreword by John Harris.
Creator:
Kluz, Ed, 1980–
Date:
2017
Physical Description:
190 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

24. The renaissance villa in Britain 1500-1700 / [edited by] Malcolm Airs and Geoffrey Tyack.

No cover image available
Date:
c2007
Physical Description:
276 p. : ill. (some col.), plans, ports. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library

25. The perfect English country house / Candida Lycett Green ; photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes.

The perfect English country house / Candida Lycett Green ; photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes.
Creator:
Lycett Green, Candida
Date:
1991
Physical Description:
175 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

26. Living in houses : a personal history of English domestic architecture / Ruth Dalton.

Living in houses : a personal history of English domestic architecture / Ruth Dalton.
Creator:
Dalton, Ruth Conroy
Date:
2022
Physical Description:
240 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

27. Politics and the English country house, 1688-1800 / edited by Joan Coutu, Jon Stobart, and Peter N. Lindfield.

Politics and the English country house, 1688-1800 / edited by Joan Coutu, Jon Stobart, and Peter N. Lindfield.
Date:
2023
Physical Description:
xvii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

28. John Piper's Brighton aquatints.

John Piper's Brighton aquatints.
Creator:
Piper, John, 1903–1992
Date:
2019
Physical Description:
111 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 x 32 cm
Collection:
Reference Library

29. Lost mansions : essays on the destruction of the country house / edited by James Raven.

Lost mansions : essays on the destruction of the country house / edited by James Raven.
Date:
2015
Physical Description:
xii, 137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library