Author: Henry Hudson Holly

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-27

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781330245941

Excerpt from Modern Dwellings in Town and Country Adapted to American Wants and Climate With a Treatise on Furniture and Decoration In the spring of 1876, I prepared an article on Country-houses for Harper's Magazine, which was followed by a series of papers on interiors, containing a few suggestions on household art in general. It then occurred to me that the importance of the subject would justify its treatment in a more extended form. With this view, I began the preparation of the present work, which, although it might have been extended to several volumes without exhausting the subject, will, I trust, prove a practical and reliable guide for those persons who wish to build, furnish, and beautify their houses without an extravagant outlay of money. In the following pages I have profited considerably by the writings of Eastlake and others. In some instances, I have quoted from The American Architect and London Building Heios, and also from a work of my own published in 1863, which has been for some years out of print. In regard to the designs, I must acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. II. F. Jelliffe, who rendered me great assistance in working them up, and to Mr. Charles Parsons, Superintendent of the Art Department at Harper & Brothers, who has added greatly to their attraction by the graceful introduction of suitable figures and scenery. I feel some hesitation in giving the cost of the various dwellings described, as the fluctuations in prices are such that the expense of building a house in any one year might not be a guide at another time. The estimates I have given are based upon the value of labor and material in the year 1878. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.