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for Gate Lodges, Cottages, Cottage Hospitals, Villas, Vicarages, Country Residences, Schools, Village Churches, Etc. Etc.Additional lithographed title-page (signed "Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich") and 50 plates (3 folding), and 5 woodcuts in the text.First Edition. 4to. viii, 37 pp. Bound in the original cloth, blocked in gilt, black and blind (the leaves loose and detached from the covers, corners worn).London: E. & F. N. Spon,

Not recorded in NSTC or BLC. From the library of John Piper.The leaves have become loose, since the glue has perished. Some light foxing and spotting. W. Young was an architect of Exeter Hall, Strand, London, who was also in partnership with R. M. Shaw. Most of the designs are Young's own, and include a number of Labourers' Cottages designed for the Earl of Wemyss and March, Chapels erected at Epsom Cemetery, the grandiose Holmewood House in Huntingdonshire designed for W. Wells, M.P., and a cottage at Henley-on-Thames.

Young, William Stock Code: EA5119