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• Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Designs and plans
• Architecture -- England -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800
• Architecture, Domestic -- England -- Early works to 1800
• Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800

• The Temple Builder's Most Useful Companion, Being Fifty Entire New Original Designs for Pleasure and Recreation: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic Taste, Calculated for the Ornamenting of Parks, Forests, Woods, Gardens, Canals, Eminences, Extensive Views, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, &c.; Together with a Full Explanation, in Letter Press, to Each Design, and Exact Scales for Measurement (London: Printed for I. Taylor, 1774), by Thomas Collins Overton, illust. by Isaac Taylor
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• The country gentleman's architect : in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates, with plans of the offices belonging to each design, distributed with a strict attention to convenience, elegance and economy (Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1802), by J. Miller and J. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on British cottage architecture : being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance : supported by fourteen designs, their ichnography, or plans, laid down to scale : comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentlemen : with various observations thereon : the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in aqua-tinta (Published by Hookham and Carpenter ... : and to be had at Taylor's Architectural Library ..., at Egerton's Military Library ..., of Mr. Wilkinson ..., and of the author ..., 1798), by James Malton, Vaughan Griffiths, Robert Wilkinson, Thomas Egerton, England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, and England) Hookham and Carpenter (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plans, elevations and sections, of Holkham in Norfolk, the seat of the late Earl of Leicester : to which are added, the cielings and chimney-pieces : and also a descriptive account of the statues, pictures, and drawings : not in the former edition (Printed by T. Spilsbury ..., and sold by B. White ..., and S. Leacroft ..., 1773), by Matthew Brettingham, Richard Boyle Burlington, William Kent, Antoine Babuty Desgodets, Inigo Jones, Anthony Walker, Edward Rooker, Tobias Müller, S. Leacroft, Benjamin White, Thomas Spilsbury, and Robert Furze Brettingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pain's British Palladio, or, The builder's general assistant ... (Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1793), by William Pain and James Pain (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Das englische Haus : Entwicklung, Bedingungen, Anlage, Aufbau, Einrichtung und Innenraum (E. Wasmuth, 1904), by Hermann Muthesius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Designs for elegant cottages and small villas : calculated for the comfort and convenience of persons of moderate and of ample fortune : carefully studied and thrown into perspective : to which is annexed a general estimate of the probable expense attending the execution of each design (Published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, no 59, High Holborn, J. Harding, St. James Street, and J. Carpenter, Old Bond Street, 1806), by E. Gyfford, James Carpenter, J. Harding, and J. Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goodwin's rural architecture (London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1850., 1850), by Francis Goodwin and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architectural designs for rustic cottages, picturesque dwellings, villas, &c. : with appropriate scenery, plans and descriptions : to which are prefixed, some critical observations on their style and character : and also of castles, abbies, and ancient English houses, concluding with practical remarks on building, and the causes of the dry rot (Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1807), by W. F. Pocock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches in architecture : consisting of original designs for cottages and rural dwellings, suitable to persons of moderate fortune, and for convenient retirement : with plans and appropriate scenery to each : on twenty plates : with some general observations (J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1807), by T. D. W. Dearn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gandy's cottages, farm buildings, &c. (Printed for John Harding, 1805), by Joseph Michael Gandy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs for small picturesque cottages and hunting boxes, adapted for ornamental retreats for hunting and shooting : also some designs for park entrances, bridges, &c., carefully studied and thrown into perspective (Published by J. Taylor at the Architectural Library :, 1807), by E. Gyfford, W. F. Pocock, and John Plaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• A series of plans for cottages or habitations of the labourer, either in husbandry, or the mechanic arts, adapted as well to towns as to the country : engraved on thirty plates : to which is added an introduction, containing many useful observations on this class of building, tending to the comfort of the poor and advantage of the builder : with calculations of expences (Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1806), by John Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve beautiful designs for farm-houses : with their proper offices, and estimates of the whole and every distinct building separate : with the measurement and value of each particular article, adapted to the customary measurements of most part of England ... (Printed for Robert Sayer, map and printseller, at the Golden Buck opposite Fetter-Lane, Fleet-Street, 1759), by William Halfpenny and Robert Sayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rural architect : consisting of various designs for country buildings, accompanied with ground plans, estimates and descriptions (Printed for John Harding, 1805), by Joseph Michael Gandy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Englishman's house : a practical guide for selecting and building a house (London : Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, [1875], 1875), by C. J. Richardson, Edwards and Co Savill, and Chatto & Windus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English mansions, lodges, villas, etc. : being a series of original designs, with plans, specifications and estimates illustrating the requirements of modern architecture (London : Atchley and Co., Architectural and Engineering Publishers, 1866., 1866), by Frederick Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs for lodges and entrances to parks, paddocks, and pleasure-grounds, in the Gothic, cottage, and fancy styles : with characteristic scenery and descriptive letter-press : on twenty plates (Published by J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, 1811), by T. D. W. Dearn and M. Dubourg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The architect and builder's library (Printed for the Author ... and sold by B. White & son ... [et al., 1815), by Charles Middleton (page images at HathiTrust)

• The bungalow specialists. (South Wester Appliane Co., Ltd., 1926), by Ltd South Western Appliance Co. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The union of architecture, sculpture, and painting : exemplified by a series of illustrations, with descriptive accounts of the house and galleries of John Soane ... (The author, 1827), by John Britton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam, Ecuyers (Printed for the authors :, 1778), by Robert Adam, Antonio Zucchi, Francesco Bartolozzi, Peter Elmsley, and James Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on British cottage architecture : being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance : supported by fourteen designs, their ichnography, or plans, laid down to scale : comprising dwellings for the peasant and farmer, and retreats for the gentlemen : with various observations thereon : the whole extending to twenty-one plates, designed and executed in aqua-tinta (Published by Hookham and Carpenter ... : and to be had at Taylor's Architectural Library ..., at Egerton's Military Library ..., of Mr. Wilkinson ..., and of the author ..., 1798), by James Malton, Vaughan Griffiths, Robert Wilkinson, Thomas Egerton, England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London, and England) Hookham and Carpenter (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• A description of Bath : wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder, its magnitude, situation, soil, mineral waters, and physical plants, its British works, and the Grecian ornaments with which they were adorned, its devastations and restorations in the days of the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, with its new buildings, baths, conduits, hospitals, places of worship, and other public edifices, it gates, bridges, walks, and streets, &c., are respectively treated of : the gods, places of worship, religion, and learning of the ancient Britons occasionally considered : and the limits of the city in its present state, its government, trade, and amusements severally pointed out ... : together with proper plans and elevations from twenty-two copper-plates (Printed for W. Bathoe, in the Strand, and T. Lownds, in Fleet Street, 1765), by John Wood, William Hoare, Thomas Lowndes, and William Bathoe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations and sections, beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life : engraved on seventy copper plates : with reference and explanation in the letter press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurement (Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1797), by John Crunden and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferme ornée (Published by I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1796), by John Plaw and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design, distributed with a strict attention to convenience, elegance, and economy (Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1787), by J. Miller and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations and sections : beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life : engraved on seventy copper plates : with reference and explanation in the letter-press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurement (Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1805), by John Crunden, Isaac Taylor, and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ouvrages d'architecture de Robert et Jaques Adam, Ecuyers (Printed for the authors :, 1778), by Robert Adam, Antonio Zucchi, Francesco Bartolozzi, Peter Elmsley, and James Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grotesque Architecture, Or, Rural Amusement: Consisting of Plans, Elevations, and Sections, for Huts, Retreats, Summer and Winter Hermitages, Terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and Natural Grottos, Cascades, Baths, Mosques, Moresque Pavilions, Grotesque and Rustic Seats, Green-houses, &c., Many of Which May Be Executed with Flints, Irregular Stones, Rude Branches, and Roots of Trees; The Whole Containing Twenty-eight New Designs, with Scales to Each: To Which is Added, an Explanation, with the Method of Executing Them (London: Printed for I. and J. Taylor, 1790), by William Wrighte
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• Oikidia (Printed for the author, and sold by C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785), by James Peacock and Charles Dilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture moderne, ou, L'art de bien bâtir pour toutes sortes de personnes. (C. Jombert, 1764), by Charles Etienne Briseux, Gilles Tiercelet, Jean Courtonne, and Claude Jombert (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de bâtir des maisons de campagne : où l'on traite de leur distribution, de leur construction, & de leur decoration ... : avec l'explication de ses projets, et des desseins de menuiserie, de serrurerie, de parterres, & d'autres ornemens propres à la decoration intérieure & extérieure ... (Chez Prault pere ..., 1743), by Charles Étienne Briseux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations and sections, beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life : engraved on seventy copper plates : with reference and explanation in the letter press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurement (Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1797), by John Crunden and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural architecture in the Gothick taste : being twenty new designs, for temples, garden-seats, summer-houses, lodges, terminies, piers, &c. : on sixteen copper plates : with instructions to workmen, and hints where with most advantage to be erected (Printed for and sold by Robert Sayer ..., 1752), by William Halfpenny, Robert Sayer, and John Halfpenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferme ornée (Published by I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1796), by John Plaw and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs, for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design, distributed with a strict attention to convenience, elegance, and economy (Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1787), by J. Miller and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country gentleman's architect, in a great variety of new designs : for cottages, farm-houses, country-houses, villas, lodges for park or garden entrances, and ornamental wooden gates : with plans of the offices belonging to each design, distributed with a strict attention to convenience, elegance, and economy : engraved on thirty-two plates, from designs drawn (Printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1789), by J. Miller and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations and sections : beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa : calculated both for town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life : engraved on seventy copper plates : with reference and explanation in the letter-press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurement (Printed for J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1805), by John Crunden, Isaac Taylor, and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palais, maisons, et autres édifices modernes, dessinés a Rome : publiés à Paris, l'an 6 de la République française (1798, v. st.) (Chez Ducamp ... :, 1798), by Charles Percier, Léon Dufourny, Charles Louis Bernier, and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rural architecture in the Chinese taste : being designs entirely new for the decoration of gardens, parks, forrests, insides of houses, &c., on sixty copper plates, with full instructions for workmen : also a near estimate of the charge, and hints where proper to be erected (Printed for Robt. Sayer ..., 1755), by William Halfpenny, Robert Sayer, and John Halfpenny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Erste Gründe der bürgerlichen Baukunst : in einem Zusammenhange und auf Verlangen entworfen (Ist zu haben bey Christian Henrich Cuno, 1751), by Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow, Christian Henrich Cuno, Johann Christian Püschel, and Andreas Nunzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Designs in architecture : consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for temples, baths, cassines, pavilions, garden-seats, obelisks, and other buildings : for decorating pleasure grounds, parks, forests, &c. &c. : engraved on 38 copper-plates (Printed for I. & J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library ..., 1790), by John Soane and England) I. and J. Taylor's Architectural Library (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar architecture : consisting of original designs of houses for gentlemen and tradesmen, parsonages and summer-retreats, with back-fronts, sections, &c. : together with banqueting-rooms, churches, and chimney-pieces : to which is added, the masonry of the semicircular and elliptical arches, with practical remarks (Printed for the author, 1768), by Thomas Rawlins and Tobias Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gründlicher Bericht, wie auff einem vorgegebenem Platz (In Verlegung Johann Philipp Richters, 1688), by Daniel Hartmann and Johann Philipp Richter (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'architecture françoise, ou Recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et profils des églises, palais, hôtels & maisons particulières de Paris, & des chasteaux & maisons de campagne ou de plaisance des environs, & de plusiers autres endroits de France, bastis nouvellement par les plus habils architectes,. et levés et mesurés exactement sur les lieux. (Chez Jean Mariette, 1727), by Jean Marot and Daniel Marot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vitruvius Scoticus : being a collection of plans, elevations, and sections of public buildings, noblemen's and gentlemen's houses in Scotland : principally from the designs of the late William Adams, Esq. architect. (Printed for Adam Black, and J. & J. Robertson ;, 1810), by William Adam (page images at HathiTrust)