An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed
An 1836 London encyclopaedia by J. C. Loudon, published by Longman and sold through the Architectural Library, setting out designs for cottages, farmhouses, farmeries, inns, schools and villas with their fittings and furniture, addressed to builders, landowners and improving clients. The 1,377 wood-engraved figures run from lettered floor plans and sectional cuts with inch-and-foot scale bars to small perspective views of buildings and outline drawings of chairs, stoves, beds and garden layouts, giving designers a stock of line-only architectural diagrams and furniture profiles.
