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DEARN, Thomas Downes Wilmot.
Designs for Lodges and Entrances to Parks, Paddocks, and Pleasure-Grounds,
in the Gothich, Cottage, and Fancy Styles; with Characteristic Scenery and Descriptive Letter-Press. On Twenty Plates. A New Edition.
Publisher: London: by J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1823
Stock code: 49315
Price: £1,750 Currency Conversion
The architect Thomas Dearn (1777–1853) practised at Cranbrook in Kent, one of his only known completed designs being a lodge (illustrated as plate 9) at nearby Angley for Sir Walter James, the dedicatee of Designs for Lodges. A reprint of the 1811 edition, this work includes fine aquatint views, with ground plans, for lodges in a variety of picturesque styles designed to make a pleasant first impression on visitors to country houses.
Folio. Original brown boards, rebacked to style. 20 engraved plates. Bookplate of Robert Dymond. Pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing, lightly rubbed with a few small marks to boards, short split to tail of spine.
