Victorian City and Country Houses: Plans and Details (Dover Architecture) - Softcover

Woodward, Geo E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486290808 ISBN 13: 9780486290805

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1996

Synopsis

The widespread interest in constructing and restoring Victorian homes makes this a must-have volume for today's builders, homeowners, architects, and preservationists. It offers an abundance of authentic, finely detailed plans and designs for a variety of Victorian residences.
Included are 100 front and side elevations, floor plans, and original designs — all to working scale — for a block of five city houses, a country house with a French roof, a summer house, various styles of cottages, a tool house, and other buildings. The plates also depict a wealth of details: roof and dormer windows, balustrades, iron fences and gates, finials, crestings, gables, brackets, paneling, mantels, front doors, an oriel window, chimneys, and many other elements.
Republished directly from a rare 1877 edition, the book offers a wonderfully authentic look back to the distinctive building styles of the Victorian period. It will not only delight builders and restorationists, but any student or lover of period architecture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486290808
• ISBN 13: 9780486290805
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112