Cottage, Lodge and Villa Architecture: [with essays on orders of architecture, linear perspective, practical geometry]

ATTRACTIVE ARCHITECTURAL PATTERN BOOK
first edition thus, expanded 4to. (30.5 x 23.5 cms.) [4 (colour-printed title page & contents)], 58; 24; 16; 19pp. plus 33 unnumbered leaves of text, 150 plates (of which 3 double-page), 1 folding table, contemporary half black leather, spine panelled by gilt decorated raised bands, maroon title label gilt, purplish cloth on sides, edges marbled, closed tear (no loss) in folding table, upper joint bit scuffed near head, minor scuffing at corners of binding, else very good and internally very fresh copy.
Engraved collection bookplate of 'William Barker,/ Londonderry" and the later signature 'M. A. Robinson/ Londonderry/ may 1898' on front end paper.
The Liverpool-based architect brothers William J. and George Ashdown Audsley first published this book about 1868 in folio (45 x 33 cm.) with 91 plates and republished this extended edition about 1870 in quarto (30.5 x 23.5 cms.) with 150 plates. To some copies at least of the of the latter they added a section at the end (as in this copy) with essays on orders of architecture, linear perspective, practical geometry.
Included here are designs for a wide range of house types and sizes, all showing plans, elevations, details, etc. Smaller houses ('cottages') include those suitable for a bailiffs, double occupancy, gamekeepers, as well as those in gothic, Italianate and semi-detached style. Middle sized houses ('lodges') include those in Elizabethan, gothic, Italianate and Old Scotch styles, and large houses (villas') include examples in the same range of styles. There is a section on ornamental brickwork. The Audsleys, originally from Scotland, practised from about 1860 to 1883, designing many churches and public buildings and were among the best known nineteenth-century British revivalists in decorative design that had been stimulated by the Great Exhibition of 1851. They published a number of books on ornament and architecture.
William Barker (1851-1898) practiced as an architect and engineer in Londonderry. Matthew Alexander Robinson (1872-1929), architect and engineer, set up his practice in Derry in 1898 having previously worked with several leading Belfast architects well known for their gothic style buildings.