Chapel and Church Architecture with Designs for Parsonages

Boston & Cleveland: John R. Jewett & Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. three quarter black roan and brown cloth, front cover decorated and illustrated in gilt. Back cover with same design in blind. Near fine. 15 pages in text. Folio, 45.5 x 30 cm. Forty seven lithographed plates, 32 of which are chromolithographs. The superb plates were printed by Bufford's of Boston presenting simple wooden designs of country churches in the Anglo-Italian, Gothic, Byzantine, Romanesque, Norman and Grecian styles, and several parsonages. Materials include wood, granite and brownstone with the basic arrangement of an early 19th century meeting house -- longitudinal nave, tall tower, spine centralized on the gable end. His conservative designs illustrate the inherent conservatism and traditional New England perspective. Plates printed recto only with all plates very fresh and bright. Laid-in the original publisher prospectus for this work. Slight rubbing to extremities. HITCHCOCK 206, first and only edition.