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John White's 1845 book

RURAL ARCHITECTURE:
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ILLUSTRATED IN
A NEW SERIES OF DESIGNS
FOR
ORNAMENTAL COTTAGES AND VILLAS,
EXEMPLIFIED BY
Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details.

BY
JOHN WHITE,
ARCHITECT.

Originally published in Glasgow, 1845,
by JOHN WHITE, 6, South Hanover Street.

ILLUSTRATIONS:

Designs for Villas in the Gothic Style, suitable for a gentleman of moderate fortune:
Plan of Sunk Floor and Front Elevation - Plan of Ground Floor and Front Elevation - Plan of Chamber Floor and Back Elevation - Section and Plan of Roof - The Plan of Roof - Details of Barge Boards and Cornices - Detail of Oriel Window - Base, Surbase, and Door Finishing.

Designs for Two Small Cottages in the Gothic Style:
Ground Plan - Front Elevation - Section.

Plans for a Small Cottage, after the Italian style:
Ground Plan - Front Elevation - Section.

Designs for a Villa in the Gothic Style, which would accomodate a genteel family:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and End Elevation - End Elevation - Section and Plan of Roof - Plan of Roof - Details of Front Door-way and Recess in Dining-room.

Designs for a Villa, after the Grecian style of architecture:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and Back Elevation - Back Elevation - Section and Details - Details - Grecian-Ionic Order and Details - Details - Grecian-Ionic Capital.

Designs for a Cottage in the Gothic Style:
Ground Plan - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor - End Elevation - Section - Plan of Roof.

Designs for a Villa in the Gothic Style:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and Back Elevation - Back Elevation - Details - Plan of Roof - Details of Library - Section and Details - Details.

Designs for a Villa in the Italian Style:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and Flank Elevation - Flank Elevation - Section and Plan of Roof - Plan of Roof - Details.

Designs for a Double Cottage:
Principle Elevation - Plan of Chamber Floor - Plan of Roof - Ground Plan.

Designs for a Villa, after the Grecian Doric style:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and End Elevation - End Elevation - Section and Details - Details - Grecian Doric Order and Details.

Designs for a Villa, after the Gothic Style:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and Flank Elevation - Flank Elevation - Section and Plan of Roof - Plan of Roof - Details - Details.

Designs for a Villa, after the Castellated Gothic Style:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and Back Elevation - Back Elevation.

Designs for a Villa, which would be very well adapted for a suburban situation, or small country seat:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and End Elevation - End Elevation - Plan of Roof and Section - Section - Details - Base, Surbase, and Door Finishing.

Designs for Two Small Cottages in the Grecian Style:
The Ground Plan - Front Elevation - Transverse Section.

Plans for a Cottage in the Gothic Style:
The Ground Plan - Front Elevation - Section.

Designs for a Villa, affording accommodation suitable for a gentleman of moderate fortune:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and Flank Elevation - FlElevation - Section and Plan of Roof - Plan of Roof - Details.

Designs for a Villa in the Gothic Style:
Ground Plan and Front Elevation - Front Elevation - Chamber Floor and Flank Elevation - Flank Elevation - Section and Plan of roof.

Designs for a mansion in the Castellated Gothic Style:
Ground Plan - Chamber Floor - Front Elevation - Back Elevation - Section - Details - Details.

Designs for an Entrance and Lodges in the Elizabethan style:
Ground Plan - Ground Plan of the Lodges - Elevation of the Gateways - Front Elevation - End Elevation - Section - Plan of Roof - Details - Details.

Designs for a Villa:
Ground Plan - Chamber-floor - Front Elevation - Flank Elevation - Sections.

Lodges and Entrance to a Mansion:
Ground Plan of the Piers and Gateways - Ground Plans of the Lodges - Elevation of the Gateways - Front Elevation - Flank Elevation - Section - Plan of Roof.

Designs for a Mansion:
Ground Plan - Plan of Chamber Floor - Front Elevation - Section - Elevation of Porch - Vases - Details - Details - Details - Bookcase - Geometrical Lines for Roofs - Roofs - Domes - Cornice and Pendentive Bracketing - Pendentive Bracketing - Stairs - Mouldings - Friezes - Cornices - Brackets - Bosses - Bosses - Plan of Ceiling - Plan of Ceiling - Chimney-Pieces - Chimney-Pieces.

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Rural Architecture: Ornamental Cottages and Villas.
by John White, 1845

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