London:: J. Murray, Albemarle Street., MDCCCXLIII.
Physical Description
viii, 65, [1] p., 5 pl.; illus.; 285 mm. (Quarto.)
Contents
[T.p.] - [Preface] - Royal Schools Of Industry, At Kensington, The Potteries, And Shepherds' Bush - List Of Subscribers - [Text, with illus. and pl. 1]; [colophon] - [Pl. 2-5].
Responsibility Note
Plates 2-5 are signed as drawn on zinc by G. Moore.
Each plate carries the imprint of lithographic printers Day & Haghe.
Several in-text illustrations are signed as engraved by J. Jackson; others, by Evans, G.F. Sargent, C. Gray. In her Preface Lady Mary Fox thanks Mr. C. Knight and Mr. Jackson for the blocks from which the vignettes have been printed.
The printer is named in the colophon and on the title-page verso: '(London:) C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.'
Summary Note
The text takes the form of twelve letters. Most are signed by 'H.B.' or 'A.C.'; the last, by C.L. Eastlake. In her Preface Lady Mary Fox states, 'The observation on the style fittest for domestic architecture, the description of the proposed house and the designs, are by Monsieur De Chateauneuf; to these, Mr. Eastlake kindly added a very valuable Letter on the principles of Interior Decoration ...'
The plates show plans, elevations and views of a country house. The book is further illustrated with head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated initials.
Provenance
Presented by C. L. Eastlake in 1843 (acknowledged RA Council, IX, 305).
Binding Note
19th-century blue cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers decorated in blind, upper cover lettered 'The Country House'.
Subject
Architecture - Country houses - Designs - Interior decoration - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Letters - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century