Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans And Details: 734 Scale Drawings

Instructions and Plans for 62 Projects
by William T. Comstock

This is a delightful book for architects, restorers, dollhouse builders, researchers, and many other fans of Victorian decorative elements (or just their inner Wednesday Addams).

As you might guess with a name like (big gulp), “Victorian Domestic Architectural Plans and Details: 734 Scale Drawings of Doorways, Windows, Staircases, Moldings, Cornices, and Other Elements,” the book is filled with extremely clear, detailed and drawn-to-scale engravings that show floor plans, elevations and perspectives of both residential and business buildings (in various styles, including Queen Anne, Eastlake, Elizabethan, Colonial, Jacobean, Southern, and more). Supplementing the large number of complete designs are nearly 700 large-scale drawings of virtually every architectural detail, many embodying the unique “gingerbread” that characterizes Victorian buildings. Included are clear, precise renderings of balusters, brackets, dormers, fireplaces, finials, gables, mantels, moldings, newels, porches, rafters, rosettes, staircases, transoms, verandahs, wainscoting, windows, and hundreds of other features.

Trade paperback reprint of William T. Comstock’s 1881 publication.

Pages: 96
Binding: TP
Publisher: Dover