Country Builders Assistant Fully Explaining by Asher Benjamin (3 results)
Language: English
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 120. A perfect gift… for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1798 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 120.
More imagesPublished by Spotswood and Etheridge, Boston, 1798
- Hardcover
Seller: Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA), New York, NY, U.S.A.Donald A. Heald Rare Books (ABAA)
Contact seller5-star seller4to. (7 11/16 x 5 5/8 inches). [A]4 B-D4 E2. [36] pp. 37 engraved plates (two folding). Complete. No explanatory text for plates 9-10, 17-18, and 29-33 was issued. Sheep, spine ruled and lettered gilt, neat repairs to spine with cloth chemise and modern morocco backed box The first original American book of architecture: second…edition, after the exceedingly rare Greenfield first edition printed the previous year. A fine example without the usual paper discolouration. An essential cornerstone of American Architectural books. Earlier architectural works printed in the United States were simply compilations or reprintings of British material (e.g. John Norman's Town and Country Builder's Assistant of 1786). Benjamin's work is a classic and important American architectural treatise, by the man who was most responsible for disseminating late colonial details throughout New England, beautifully illustrated with engravings of colonial buildings, elevations of churches and homes, ornaments, cornices, etc., reflecting the influences of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders. "[T]here is scarcely a village which in moulding profiles, cornice details, church spire, or farm-house does not reflect his influence" (DAB). "The career of our first American architectural writer, Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), covered several decades of the early nineteenth century. Both the books he wrote and the buildings he designed had an influence on building in New England that is still visible. He probably will be best remembered for his popularization of the federal style through his early books (and the Greek revival in his later ones)" (Thompson). Although the title states that each plate would include a textual description, there was no text issued for plates 9-10, 17-18, and 29-33; the work is complete with 18 unnumbered leaves of text (including the title) and 37 engraved plates. Rink 2484; Evans 33399; Hitchcock 112; Rink 2484; ESTC W30559; Neville Thompson, "Tools of Persuasion: The American Architectural Book of the Nineteenth Century" in The American Illustrated Book in the Nineteenth Century (1987), p.142.
More imagesPublished by Boston: Printed by Spotswood and Etheridge, 1798., 1798
Seller: William Reese Company, New York, NY, U.S.A.William Reese Company
Contact seller5-star sellerSecond edition, after the exceedingly rare and virtually unprocurable Greenfield first edition printed the previous year, of the first original American book of architecture. Earlier architectural works printed in the United States were simply compilations or reprintings of British material (e.g. John Norman's Town and Country B…uilder's Assistant of 1786). A classic and important American architectural treatise by the man who was most responsible for disseminating Roman and Greek stylistic details found in New England architecture of the period. The book is beautifully illustrated with engravings of colonial buildings, elevations of churches and homes, ornaments, cornices, etc. that all reflect the influences of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders. "[T]here is scarcely a village which in moulding profiles, cornice details, church spire, or farm-house does not reflect his influence" - DAB. Benjamin was a prolific architectural writer who published The American Builder's Companion (1806), The Rudiments of Architecture (1814), and the very popular PRACTICAL HOUSE CARPENTER (1830). "The career of our first American architectural writer, Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), covered several decades of the early nineteenth century. Both the books he wrote and the buildings he designed had an influence on building in New England that is still visible. He probably will be best remembered for his popularization of the federal style through his early books (and the Greek revival in his later ones)" - Thompson. This copy bears the contemporary ownership inscription of Ebenezer Tilton, of Epping, New Hampshire, dated May 1805. The first obtainable edition of the earliest architectural book written by a native-born American and printed in the United States, in much better condition than normally found. DAB II, pp.179-80. RINK 2484. EVANS 33399. HITCHCOCK 112. Neville Thompson, "Tools of Persuasion: The American Architectural Book of the Nineteenth Century" in The American Illustrated Book in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Gerald W.R. Ward (Winterthur, DE, 1987), p.142. REESE, FEDERAL HUNDRED 66 (ref). Small quarto. Contemporary sheep, gilt morocco label. Spine ends worn, corners bumped and worn, boards rubbed. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper (see below). Moderate tanning and foxing, as usual. Some offsetting from plates, tide marks to the top of plates 18 to 21; plate 25 with a small tear in lower edge. Very good overall. In linen clamshell box, gilt leather label.
