Loudon Cottage

LOUDON, John Claudius: An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman London, 1833.
A very attractive copy of the first edition of this important historical architectural reference work, in a Sydney binding, and with a handsome gift inscription to a Mr Carr, 'on his leaving for Sydney' in 1835. It is also likely that the pencilled "Mort" in an early hand refers to the later owner of the work, the Sydney businessman Thomas Sutcliffe Mort.<br><br>Broadbent wrote that this work was the 'principal architectural handbook for amateurs and professionals' in the 1830s and 1840s, and it evidently exerted a vast influence on the colonial architecture in New South Wales (Australian Colonial House, p. 205). The work is recognised as helping define Victorian architecture, a style that is very prominent in the history of Australian design.<br><br>John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843), a Scottish botonist, horticultural designer and editor of The Gardner's Magazine is known well for his designs for the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Stradsett Hall in Norfolk and the Abbey Cemetery in Bath. With this work, Loudon established himself as an expert in the language of rural architecture: 'Loudon's involvement with architecture arose naturally out of his interest in landscape. He made himself a specialist in rural vernacular building types by writing his Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture (1833). This work was unprecedented in that it was consciously addressed to the middle class rather than to an aristocratic audience' (Brittanica).<br><br>A pencil note on the front pastedown makes the interesting comment that when this 'book was rebacked (actually rejointed) in 2004 the spine was found to be lined with an 1845 Sydney newspaper. So "Mr Carr" had the book rebound soon after arrival in Sydney.'.

Thick octavo, half title including publishers advertisements to verso, almost 100 lithographs on thicker art pages (but with continuing pagination) as well as more than 2,000 wood engravings throughout, early owner's inscription, some scattered foxing, very good; half dark blue morocco, original marbled boards, spine with some cracking and skilfully re-jointed, gilt.

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SIMPSON, E. BLANTYRE. THE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ORIGINALS. New York: Charles Scribners's Sons, 1913.
Bound in brown buckram, with bright gilt lettering, title and publisher to spine mildly dulled. TEG, deckled fore-edges, some pages unopened. Moderate toning of text , foxing of rear e.p., and prelim. Oval color frontispiece of R.L.S. tipped in, painting by Count Nerli. Right side of portrait creased to edge. All else clean, tightly bound. In archival polyester protective film. 213 pp, 8 vo. Two pages of ads from The Literary Memoir Series. First Edition. Copyright page stating "First Published 1913". Click title for image.

First American edition A biographical study of R.L.S. of the various areas and people in his life from where he drew his characters from. Illustrated with 31 tipped in plates, letter facsimiles. Tipped in oval color plate of R.L.S., creased to edge, with rubbed area. Simpson drew his sources from a lecture on R.L.S. as a dramatist, by Sir Arthur Pinero; Chambers Journal where he published many articles in his youth; Chronicle of Friendships, by Will Low's descriptions of the two cousin Stevensons in their Fountainbleau days when the lived with Loudon Dodd and his artist friends; Mrs. Thomas Stevenson's letters from Saranac (their cottage in Saranac Lake NY), and on a subsequent cruise; which tell of R.L.S. and his sea travels; from Vailima Table Talk (his life in Samoa, by his step-daughter, provides facts and insight into his mode of work when she was his amanuensus. The Appin murder trial, formed the basis of two modern novels besides Kidnapped and Catriona, is set forth in Notalble Trails, edited by David N. Mackay. Telling without the embellishment of fiction the shooting of Campbell of Glenure, the condemnationa and execution of James Stewart, and Alan Breck, one of R.L.S.'s truest originals. Including his friendship with Lord Guthrie, Stevenson's fellow student during their legal studies, Lord Guthrie lived for part of the year at the Stevenson's old summer home, Swanson Cottage, where he preserved and cared for collected portraits and relics of the the author. Hard Cover Very Good

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SCOTT-JAMES, ANNE: The Cottage Garden. Allen Lane 1981 (1st.).

Brown pict. cloth gt. Frontispiece & 23 colour photographs, plus many black and white text illustrations & drawings.159 pp. Very good in very good pict. dustwrapper (dw: one small tear). The story of cottage gardens and cottage plants from Chaucer's time until today.

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Anne Scott-James: The Cottage Garden, Allen Lane 1981 1981 ; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 0713912634

First Edition Hardback in Dust Wrapper (DJ). B I N D I N G : Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. 9½" x 6 ". 159pp. Index. Bibliography. N O T E S: [Illustrated with B&W photographs and drawings. From the flap: "The medieval husbandman with his yard, the Tudor housewife with her bed of herbs, the eighteenth-century artisan cultivating exquisite auriculas for show, the factory worker of the industrial revolution growing prize pansies as his one happy link with the natural world these are the men and women who created the cottage garden. To them we must add the illustrious names of richer or better educated people who loved and encouraged cottage gardening John Claudius Loudon, William Cobbett, William Robinson, Miss Gertrude Jekyll and others, some fighting a political battle to win better conditions for cottagers, others drawing inspiration from the beauty of the cottage garden and its flowers. Cottage vegetables and cooking are also part of the story. Today, some of the best gardeners in Britain are cottagers, and the book ends with a section on modern gardens."] C O N D I T I O N : Very Good - in Good DJ. Heavily faded at the spine. Text bright and tight. Very Good - in Good DJ. Heavily faded at the spine. Text bright and tight.

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