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Tod, George / Surveyor and Hot House Builder : Plans Elevations and Sections of Hot Houses Green Houses An Aquarium Conservatories and Recently Built in Different Parts of England : For Various Noblemen and Gentlemen : Including a Hothouse and Greenhouse in Her Late Majesty's Gardens at Frogmore

London : Published By J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, High Holborn 1823 / Reprint / FBRE Ltd, A Bound / Flex Cover / REPRINT

Facsimile Bound Reprint Edition / Replica. 48 pages. Paper / Soft cover reprint edition in very good or better condition, slight wear to edges. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Illustrations are in color. Excerpt from preface: Botany, an elegant and interesting study, has lately become a favourite pursuit among the higher classes of the community; and the attention to forcing of plants, flowers, and fruits, for the table, has increased the demand for Horticultural Buildings of every description. The author therefore hopes this Collection of Plans now offered to the Public, will be found an acceptable production, as various specimens of the different kinds are given, suitable to most situations; viz. Green-houses, Houses for forcing Flowers, Roses, &c., Conservatories, Pineries, Peacheries, and Vineries; also an example of an Aquarium, the only one ever built on such a construction. This Collection will be particularly acceptable, as it exhibits Plans of such Houses only as have been actually built, and as they are dispersed throughout different parts of the kingdom, noblemen and gentlemen, in their several neighbourhoods, have an opportunity of appealing to the buildings themselves, and of making an examination of what merits they really possess. These buildings have chiefly been executed from the author's own designs; the others from designs of W. T. Aiton, Esq., his Majesty's Gardener at Kew and Kensington. No speculative or experimental designs are here shown; but such only as have been actually built, and which have been found to answer the purposes for which they were constructed. No stronger proof can be offered for the verity of this assertion, than a desire that the buildings should be investigated. The Plans now made public have been selected from a great number, which have been executed by the author, who, in the course of a long experience, both in designing and executing buildings of this description, has been enabled to make many valuable improvements in their construction; and he begs leave to appeal to the noble and respectable characters whose names are mentioned in this work, for a corroboration of the approbation with which they have been received. etc.. Illustr.: Fully Illustrated. Book

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