skip to main content

Date

1899.

Code

111492

License

Creative Commons

What can I do with this work?

  • Can I download it?
  • Can I remix or adapt it?
  • Can I share it?
  • Can I make money from it?
  • Must I acknowledge the creator with a credit in my work?
Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NonCommercial

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