FAMILIAR ARCHITECTURE

RAWLINS, Thomas.  FAMILIAR ARCHITECTURE; OR, ORIGINAL DESIGNS OF HOUSES, FOR GENTLEMEN AND TRADESMEN.

London: I. and J. Taylor, 1789. Folio. Quarter-calf, marbled boards. 30, (4) pages, 50 plates. Second edition. [Harris, 731; Schimmelman, Architectural Books in Early America, 112].

First published in 1768, Rawlins plans concentrate on both rural and city housing.  The patterns are for parsonages, summer retreats, banqueting-rooms, and churches, as well as middle class housing.  Many of the designs are Palladian in nature.  There is also a chapter on stone masonry, not surprisingly as Rawlins, who spent his life in Norwich, was more a successful mason and sculptor than an architect.  Schimmelman locates copies in America before 1800.  A four-page catalogue for J. Taylor's Architectural Library is bound-in.  Sympathetically rebacked; light sporadic foxing; else very good.

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