A Victorian Housebuilder's Guide: Woodward's and similar items

Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Here are detailed drawings, floor plans, elevations, specifications and vintage cost estimates for twenty distinctive Victorian structures, ranging from a cottage to an ornate brick villa, from a schoolhouse to a decorative boathouse. They have been reproduced from a rare 1869 edition of Woodward's National Architect, a publication directed to builders, carpenters and masons of the Victorian era.Each of these highly individual and appealing structures has been meticulously rendered in a landscaped perspective view along with front and side elevations, first- and second-floor plans and close-up sections. With over 580 black-and-white illustrations, the text provides directions for finishing trim, baseboards and wainscotting; completing brick and plaster work; constructing chimneys, cesspools and cisterns; and much more.