London T Pettitt & Co. 1881

39pp, 15pp b/w plates some double page. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration on upper board. Small 4to. Slightly shaky at hinges. Head of spine slightly rubbed else very good copy. Several examples shown are from Ireland. He shows designs for labourers' cottages for the Earl of Carysfort at Glenart and for the Earl of Wicklow at Shelton Abbey, Co. Wicklow, and for labourers' cottages and a gate lodge for the Earl of Roden at Tollymore, Co. Down. There are also designs a temperance inn on the Glenart Estates in the Vale of Avoca, and for two farm houses and a school with an attached schoolmistress's house in other Irish locations. He brought out several books of designs for buildings on country estates. These include Picturesque Lodges (1879), Country Architecture: A Work Designed for the Use of the Nobility and Country Gentlemen amongst others. Built projects span both England and Ireland.