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 (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 1020
ellent effect;perhaps better than it nowhas. The circular form isso beautiful in itself, andthe repetition, at equaldistances, of the uniform-sized semiciicular-headedopenings, produces aneflectat once so simple, so grand,and so much in unison withthe generid form, that thewhole of the… … the architectural lines in the figure before us, but those showing an enlarged basementor plinth. If the walls were raised on secure foundations, and built of brick laid inRoman cement, they would last for thousands of years ; the ironwork would no doubtfail, but, if a holly were planted in the…
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