Ovfersized hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine, crisp dust jacket. xviii+ 260 pp. with bibliography, index. Profusely illustrated with reproductions and drawings and with contemporary photographs. An exploration of an important aspect of New Jersey's architectural history, the influence of "pattern books' on the state's residential architecture from the colonial period through the advent of World War II. the authors match period illustrations to surviving houses to demonstrate pattern book influence, from Lefever's "The Young Builder's General Instructor" (1829) to Gustav Stickley" "Craftsman Homes'' (1909).

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Building By The Book: pattern-Book Architecture in New Jersey

Publisher

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0813518482

ISBN 13

9780813518480

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

fine

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New Jersey

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In all, "Building by the Book" reflects a thorough study in what is probably a neglected period of building, whereby middle class owners were enabled to build architect-designed homes which would otherwise have been reserved for the wealthy. Pattern books also provided direction for local builders.

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