The principles and practice of modern house-construction : - including water-supply and fittings--sanitary fittings and plumbing--drainage and sewage-disposal--warming ventilation--lighting--santiary aspects of furniture and decoration--climage and situation stables--sanitary law, &c. ; illustrated by above 700 figures in the text, and a series of separately-printed plates / - Edited by G. Lister Sutcliffe [written by various authors]. - Divisional vol.1.
Date
1899.
Collection
Creator(s)
G. Lister Sutcliffe, Talwin Morris, David Rodger, Blackie & Son
Code
111492
Catalogue link
Binding title: Modern house construction.
Forest green cloth boards. Design: on the front cover, an elaborate architectural frame in black outline, the title in an upper panel in sans serif architectural capitals, branching lines from bottom centre creating a cupped shape with a stem bearing a poppy seed-capsule, two outer stems terminating in gilt reniform or "peacock crest" motifs, which are repeated below in deep jade green with slabs of the same colour; small spaced circles blocked in gold and black; across the top the biblical quotation Nisi Dominus aedificaverit domum completed on the back cover with in vanum laboraverunt qui aedificant cam; matching back cover and spine. Signed: TM (LO/C32). From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. Owner's inscription dated September 1905 on fly leaf LO/C32. 4 pages, xii, 168 pages, 5 leaves of plates : illustrations, diagrams, plans ; 29cm
Related objects
-
Waverley, Or, 'Tis sixty years since / - by Sir Walter Scott. -
The horse : - its treatment in health and disease ; with a complete guide to breeding training and management / - edited by Prof. J. Wortley Axe. - Divisional vol. I. -
Sesame and lilies, and Unto this last / - (by) John Ruskin; Introduction by Alice Meynell. -
The young chemists / - by W. Furneaux. -
Poems / - by Alfred Tennyson; with an introduction by Alice Meynell. -
Lives and voyages of the famous navigators Drake and Cavendish. -
The call of the homeland : - a collection of English verse / - selected and arranged by R. P. Scott and Kath: T. Wallas. - Book One. -
The psalter in English verse / - by John Keble; with an introduction by His Grace the Archbishop of Armagh. -
Poems / - by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; with an introduction by Alice Meynell. -
English masques / - with an introduction by Herbert Arthur Evans. -
A school history of English literature / - by Elizabeth Lee. -
After five years in India, Or, Life and work in a Punjaub district / - by Anne C. Wilson. -
The universe, Or, The infinitely great and the infinitely little / - by F. A. Pouchet; illustrated by 270 engravings on wood from drawings by A. Faguet, Mesnel, and Émile Bayard and four coloured plates. -
Tennyson : - early poems / - with an introduction by the Rev. H. Buchanan Ryley. -
Schijnwerpers : - De problemen van onzen tijd in gesprekken met grooten onzer dagen / - door George Sylvester Viereck; Nederlandsche bewerking door Johan W. Schotman. -
Blackie's Modern cyclopedia of universal information : - a handy book of reference on all subjects and for all readers ; with numerous pictorial illustrations and a series of maps / - edited by Charles Annandale. - Vol. I., - A-BLA.