VICTORIAL DOMESTIC ARTCHITECTURAL PLANS AND DETAILS

Comstock, William T.

ISBN 10: 0486254429 / ISBN 13: 9780486254425

Published by Dover Publications, Inc., 1987

About this Item

734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices and Other Element. Card covers. Good+ tight condition. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 02957

Bibliographic Details

• Title: VICTORIAL DOMESTIC ARTCHITECTURAL PLANS AND DETAILS
• Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486254429
• ISBN 13: 9780486254425
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Victorian architecture, with its quirky diversity, eclectic origins, and exuberant ornamentation, continues to exert a strong attraction on today's architects, builders, and homeowners. For those interested in restoring, preserving, or even re-creating Victorian homes, authentic plans and designs are invaluable. This volume, meticulously reproduced from a rare nineteenth-century publication, offers an exceptionally rich pictorial record of actual mid- to late-Victorian designs.
Extremely clear and detailed engravings — drawn to scale — present elevations, floor plans, perspectives, and other drawings (in some cases, complete framing plans) for country houses and cottages in a variety of styles: Queen Anne, Eastlake, Elizabethan, Colonial, Jacobean, Southern, Californian, and more. There are even designs for several store and office fronts, with counters, shelving, etc.
Supplementing the large number of complete designs are nearly 700 large-scale drawings of virtually every architectural detail, many embodying the unique "gingerbread" that characterizes Victorian buildings. Included are clear, precise renderings of balusters, brackets, dormers, fireplaces, finials, gables, mantels, moldings, newels, porches, rafters, rosettes, staircases, transoms, verandahs, wainscoting, windows, and hundreds of other features.
Restorers of old houses, preservationists, students of American architectural history, admirers of Victoriana, and anyone interested in the Victorian Gothic styles that dominated American domestic architecture in the late 1800s will want to have this inexpensive treasury of authentic century-old plans and details.

About the Author

The designs of William T. Comstock, a prolific 19th-century publisher of architectural plans, have inspired several Dover books, including Houses and Seaside Cottages of the Victorian Era and Turn of the Century House Designs.