Author: John Bullock

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781331953845

Excerpt from The American Cottage Builder: A Series of Designs, Plans, and Specifications, From $200 to $20, 000, for Homes for the People; Together With Warming, Ventilation, Drainage, Painting, and Landscape Gardening The object of this work is to furnish designs of cottages, from a twenty-five dollar cottage to a twenty-five thousand dollar palace - giving estimates as to cost, furnishing plans and specifications, and treating upon the rudiments of the Arts called into exercise by the practice of Cottage Building. This book being the third of the "Architectural Series," the portions of the two former volumes, which might properly be incorporated in this, are omitted. The first of the series is "The History and Rudiments of Architecture;" the second, "Rudiments of the Art of Building." The chapter on Warming and Ventilation is edited from Tomilson, and that on Gardening, from Glenny. Wherever, in other portions of the work, we have availed ourselves of the labors of others, we have given them proper credit. Although the book is intended to be of a practical character, I thought it not improper, in the chapter entitled "Generally," to show the position and the difficulties of the Artist. 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.