Holly's Country Seats - 1863
Holly, Henry Hudson. HOLLY'S COUNTRY SEATS. (title page) HOLLY'S COUNTRY SEATS: CONTAINING LITHOGRAPHIC DESIGNS FOR COTTAGES, VILLAS, MANSIONS, ETC., WITH THEIR ACCOMPANYING OUTBUILDINGS; ALSO COUNTRY CHURCHES, CITY BUILDINGS, RAILWAY STATIONS, ETC. ETC. D. Appleton and Co. 1863. 1st. xiii, 171, 1pp. table of contents, thirty-six tinted lithographic plates. An important book by the architectect Henry H. Holly with most the buildings featured showing floor plans. Especially interesting is the fact that this is the first American book to include a design for a railway depot (see Meeks, THE RAILROAD STATION, p.75, fig. 81). Expected wear with some light foxing, overall in vg cond.