Timothy Lightoler: 'The Gentleman and Farmer's Architect. A ...

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£150 - £250

Timothy Lightoler: 'The Gentleman and Farmer's Architect. A new work containing a great variety of useful and genteel designs. being correct plans and elevations of parsonage and farm houses, lodges for parks, pinery, peach, hot and green houses..., London, Robert Sayer, 1774, title page and 25 engraved plates [Harris 517; cf. Weinreb Catalogue 35, no. 12], 4to (27 x 21cm), 20th Century paper covered boards. Lightoler's work features "an ambitious (though modestly budgeted) set of designs in Palladian, Gothic and Chinese styles for country gentlemen and farmers. Barns, sheep coats, sham ruins 'to place before disagreeable objects', stables and dairies are among the farm houses and together form a delightful pattern book, though few can have been executed. The only domestic architecture recorded as by Lightoler are designs for hall, dining room and stables at Burton Constable, Yorks, 1760" (Weinreb). Very scarce