This book brings together a range of perspectives on the subject of the 18th-century Dublin townhouse. Contents include: typologies in Dublin domestic architecture * financing speculative building * the Dublin domestic formula * supplying stone for the Dublin house * brick in the townhouse * The 18th-century town garden * inventories in the study of the interior * dining in the townhouse * stable buildings * townhouses of the Irish MPs, 17501800 * townhouse as tenement in the 19th and early 20th centuries * Richard Castle ...
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This book brings together a range of perspectives on the subject of the 18th-century Dublin townhouse. Contents include: typologies in Dublin domestic architecture * financing speculative building * the Dublin domestic formula * supplying stone for the Dublin house * brick in the townhouse * The 18th-century town garden * inventories in the study of the interior * dining in the townhouse * stable buildings * townhouses of the Irish MPs, 17501800 * townhouse as tenement in the 19th and early 20th centuries * Richard Castle and No. 85 Saint Stephen's Green * Colaiste Mhuire * Leitrim House * conserving the townhouse * Rococo plasterwork of the Dublin School * speculative building and the decorative interior * preserving the townhouse * comparative thoughts from London * Edinburgh and Dublin
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Very Good in near fine jacket. First edition, 2010. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 286 pp., Very Good copy in Near Fine dust jacket, pencil-notes to some of the pages, ink inscription on the front flyleaf (can't tell whether or not it's from one of the book's contributors), soiling to some pages, light creasing or wear to the edges of the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. Uncommon.
