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Picturesque pattern books and pre-Victorian designers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

Michael McMordie
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Between 1790 and 1835 more than sixty books illustrating designs for small to moderately large houses were published. All of these, but particularly those devoted entirely or in part to cottage designs, have a particular interest for the historian for the evidence they contain of changing tastes and ideas through this period of social upheaval. While individual designs for such modest buildings are only occasionally remarkable, these books taken as a group give a striking picture of the designer’s intentions, and in some cases a glimpse of his own circumstances as well.

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Architectural History , Volume 18 , 1975 , pp. 43 - 59
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Copyright © Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain 1975

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