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Author/Creator:Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895, author.
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Title:Villas and cottages : a series of designs prepared for execution in the United States / by Calvert Vaux, architect, late Downing & Vaux, Newburgh on the Hudson ; illustrated by 300 engravings.
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Publication:New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1857.
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Physical Description:[6], xii, [1], 14-318, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original green cloth. Title and half title page vignette stamped in gilt on front cover. Blind-stamped on back cover. Inscription: J. D. Williamson, Jr. Aug. 1859.
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Notes:Engraved and illustrated half-title.
Wood engravings by Alexander Anderson, Pinkney, J.W. Orr, and H. Jewitt; after Calvert Vaux, A.J. Downing, F.C. Withers, J.W. Williams, J. McEntee, JWCW and C. Nichols.
Copyright 1857 by Harper & Brothers.
Added illustrated title and frontispiece included in pagination.
Last page blank.
Advertisement "Calvert Vaux, architect"--p. [319].
The plate is a chromolithograph (by Sarony, Major & Knapp) depicting "Specimens of encaustic tiles. For sale by Miller & Coates, 279 Pearl St. New York."
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Subjects:Architecture, Domestic--United States.
Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.
Design and ornament--United States.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1857.
Williamson, J.D.--Autograph.
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Genre/Form:Wood engravings--1857.
Chromolithographs--1857.
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Also listed under:Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895, illustrator.
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, illustrator.
Withers, Frederick Clarke, 1828-1901, illustrator.
Williams, James W., 1815 or 1816-, illustrator.
McEntee, Jervis, 1828-1891, illustrator.
J. W. C. W., illustrator.
Nichols, C., illustrator.
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver.
Pinkney, engraver.
Orr, John William, 1815-1887, engraver.
Jewitt, Henry, engraver.
Harper & Brothers, publisher.
Sarony, Major & Knapp Lith., lithographer.
United States--New York--New York.
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