The Country House: A Practical Manual of the Planning and Construction of the American Country Home and Its Surroundings - Couverture souple

Hooper, Charles Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0548658692 ISBN 13 : 9780548658697

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is the purpose of this work to forewarn him of some of the actual difficulties, that he may avoid the aforesaid expensive preliminaries, and to suggest such various points as are apt to escape his notice in the scheming and laying out of the country house. In preparing this work the author is indebted to many men of professional standing who have kindly offered their help and suggestions, to the many owners who have allowed their houses to be photographed, and to the following. works, which may well be consulted by the reader if he should desire to investigate the subject more deeply: Building Superintendence, by T. M. Clark; Building Construction and Superintendence, by F. E. Kidder; Construction Details, by F. W. Chandler; Details of Building Construction, by Clarence A. Martin; AD ictionary of Architecture and Building, by Russell Sturgis; The Decoration of Houses, by Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr.; American Sanitary Plumbing, by James J. Lawler; Plumbing Simplified, by Wm. Paul Gerhard, C.E.; Hot-W ater Heating, Steam and Gas Fitting, by James J. Lawler; Heating and Ventilation of Residences, by James R. Willett; An Outline of Ventilation and Warming, by James Baldwin; Principles of Ventilation and Heating, by John Shaw Billings; Heating and Ventilating Buildings, by Prof. R. C. Carpenter; The Disposal of Sewerage of I solated Country Houses, by Wm. Paul Gerhard, C.E.; House Drainage and Water Service, by James C. Bayles; Water and Water Supply, by W. N. Corfield, M.D.; Sinking and Boring Wells, by Ernest Spon; Water Supply Engineering, by A. Prescott Folwell; Modern Methods of Sewerage Disposal, by Geo. E. Waring, Jr., M. I nst. C.E.; Munns Practical Land Drainer ;T he Private Stable, by J. A. Garland; Poultry and Pigeons, by Hugh Piper; European and Japanese Gardens, published by Coates; The Architectural Review; The Brochure Series of Architec
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548658692
• ISBN 13: 9780548658697
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Soderholtz E E
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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