The Smaller English House of the Later Renaissance 1660 - 1830. An Account of Its Design, Plan, and Details.

4to., x, 286pp., with 250 illustrations which include many illustrated from b/w photographs, measured drawings and plans, index, original gilt decorated green cloth spine and upper cover titled in gilt. An unusally near fine bright clean handsome copy. Ex Libris E. Julian White with his bookplate to upper pastedown along with a Prize label from the Proprietors of "The Builder" - A Journal for the Architect & Constructor. The purpose of this book is to classify the smaller types of houses of the Later Renaissance in England and to present a series of examples, many of which have hitherto been unknown. The period selected begins with the ascession of Charles the Second and extends to the opening years of Queen Victoria's reign.