Rural architecture : being a complete description of farm houses, cottages and out buildings ... together with lawns, pleasure grounds and parks : the flower, fruit and vegetable gardens : also, useful and ornamental domestic animals for the country resident ... also, the best method of conducting water into cattle yards and houses

Lewis F Allen

New York : C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860

Bound in publisher's blind stamped cloth. Rear board missing original verso, liner page. xv, [13]-378 pages.  14 wood-engraved plates and numerous other text illustrations.  Originally published in 1852, this is a later stereotype edition. The designs show the influence of the Picturesque and most are in the style created by Downing and known as the Bracketed Mode with board and batten walls, barge boards, ample verandahs, and moulded chimney pots. They were prepared by Otis and Brown, Buffalo architects.  Hitchcock 19.