City architecture; or, Designs for dwelling houses, stores, hotels, etc. In 20 plates. With descriptions and an essay on the principles of design
A pattern book of twenty plates by Marriott Field, published by D. Appleton in New York in 1854, offering elevations for city dwelling houses, stores and hotels alongside descriptions and an essay on design principles for builders and property owners. The plates are fine outline engravings of street facades drawn flat and to scale, with round-arched windows, bracketed cornices, balustrades and pilaster strips that can be lifted as line ornament, repeating window grids or ready-made streetscape silhouettes.
