Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape

Name: Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape
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ISBN: 9780195079920

ISBN-10: 0195079922

ISBN-13: 9780195079920

Edition: 1994

Authors: Carl R. Lounsbury, Vanessa E. Patrick

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This lavish book is a compilation of architectural and landscape terms used in the colonies and states of the Southern seaboard from Delaware to Georgia. The purpose of the work is to trace the growth of a regional and increasingly technical and academic vocabulary in the period from 1607 through the 1820s. The glossary contains 1,500 terms ranging from building types to methods of construction. All terms are succinctly defined, describing meanings found in primary documents of the period. Extracts from various contemporary sources are quoted in most entries in order to elucidate the context and contemporary usage of these words and phrases. Nearly 400 drawings, photographs, plates, and…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 7.81" wide x 10.31" long x 1.21" tall
Weight: 2.860
Language: English

Carl R. Lounsbury is an architectural historian with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. An author of Architects & Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building, he has taught early American architectural history at several institutions in Virginia, including Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. Lounsbury lives in Williamsburg.