• Loüis Savot [ed François Blondel], L’Architecture Françoise des Bastiments Particuliers  2nd ed, Clouzier, Paris 1685 [1624).
• E L de Jonchère, Nouvelle Méthode de fortifier les plus grandes villes ... Suivie de dissertations sur le Machine de Marly, sur les pompes du Pont Nôtre-Dame et de la Samaritaine, &c. Florentin Delaulne, Paris 1718.
• John Plaw. Sketches of Country Houses, Villas and Rural Dwellings, &c. London 1800
• Edmund Bartell. Hints for Picturesque Improvements, Ornamental Cottages , &c. London 1804.
• (f) J N L Durand. Receuil et Parallèle des Édifices en tout genre, Anciens et Modernes. Brussells no date (1805 [1801]). Marcus Barlow's copy, signed by him. This copy, like nearly all others, lacks the text volume by J G Legrand, which subscribers could buy optionally, but rarely did: see Charles Wood, Catalogue 109 (Cambridge [Massachusetts] 2001), pp 16-17 [Link]
• Uvedale Price. Essays on the Picturesque, &c. 3 vols, London 1810. [Link 1] [Link 2] [Link 3]
• Joseph Woods. Letters of an Architect from France, Italy, and Greece. 2 vols, London 1828.
• John Billington [ed]. The Architectural Director &c. 2nd ed, John Bennet, London 1834.
• George Smith. Essay on the Construction of Cottages, &c. Edinburgh, no date [1834]
• George Wightwick. The Palace of Architecture. London 1840.
• F J Jobson. Chapel and School Architecture. London 1850. B L F Clarke, Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century, p 104, refers to this book as 'entirely based on Pugin'. Jobson was a Methodist, and his book was important in persuading Methodists that the Gothic was an acceptable style, as evidenced by Reed's Wesley Church, Lonsdale Street, of 1857. [Link]
• E L Garbett. Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in Architecture, &c. London 1850. Also E L Garbett. Architecture. 9th ed, London 1890 [1850] One of the first proponents of functional/organic theories.
• Henry. Roberts, The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, &c. 3rd ed, Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, London 1851.
• (p) Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes, to which the Labourer's Friend Soiety is United [leaflet] London. no date [c 1851]
• D H Arnot. Gothic Architecture Applied to Modern Residences &c. New York 1851.
• Z Baker. The Cottage Builder's Manual. Worcester [Massachusetts] 1856. Contains a quantity of banal material on geometry, &c, but is of more interest for its designs, including many polygonal ones showing the influence of Orson Fowler, whose own 'Octagon Cottage' is also illustrated [Link]
• W H Leeds. Rudimentary Architecture for the the Use of Beginners, &c. John Weale, London 1851. [Link]
• (p) Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Clifton [fund-raising leaflet with a perspective view of the proposed church design, by Mallinson & Healey].  Clifton [near Brighouse, England] 1859.
• (p) T James. Notes on Cottage-Building. Northampton Architectural Society, Northampton 1861.
• Victoria. Parliament. Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums. Melbourne 1864. Copy of a despatch from the Secretary of State, England, relating to hospitals and asylums in the various colonies
• Cottages: How to Arrange and Build Them, &c.[by 'A Sanitary Reformer']. 2nd ed, London, no date [1879].
• H H Holly. Modern Dwellings in Town & Country, &c. New York 1878.
• J J Stevenson. House Architecture. 2 vols, London 1880. [Link 1] [Link 2]
• E E Viollet-le-Duc [trans Benjamin Bucknall]. Lectures on Architecture, 2 vols, London 1881 [Paris 1863-72]. This copy a prize to James Bannatyne Lewis on coming first in the first class in the third honours examination for the degree of Master of Civil Engineering (corrected from Certificate of Civil Engineer), University of Melbourne.
• Robert Kerr. The Gentleman's House. 2nd ed, London 1865.
• (p) James Matthews. Powers's Commercial Fire-Proof Buildings. Rochester [NY] 1872. A promotional booklet on this large iron-fronted building. The role of James Matthews is unclear, but he refers (p 13) to the fact that he occupies an elegant office in the tower.
• E R Robson, School Architecture. John Murray, London 1874.
• [ef] Edward Combes, Report on the Lighting, Heating and Ventilation of School Buildings, &c. Government Printer, Sydney 1880.
• Robert Kerr. The Consulting Architect: Practical Notes on Administrative Difficulties and Disputes. London 1886.
• John Belcher. Essentials in Achitecture. Batsford, London 1907.
• Brian Lewis, 'The Development of Transport Facilities', thesis [unspecified] University of Melbourne, no date [?c1949].
• Brian Lewis. 'The Architectural Aspects of Railway Planning in England'. PhD, University of London, no date [?c1950].

Farm Buildings

• (ef) C G T Morel-Vindé [Vicomte de]. Essai sur les Constructions Rurales Economiques contenant leurs Plans, Coupes, Elévations, Details at Devis établis aux plus bas prix possibles. A-L Lusson Paris 1824. [Link]
• (ef) [H] Roux Ainé. Fermes Modèles Receuil de Constructions Rurales et Communales. Paris, no date [?c1840].
• ‘Farm-Buildings’ [seven competition essays of 1849], Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, vol XI (1850)
• G H Andrews, Rudimentary Treatise on Agricultural Engineering, with Illustrations. John Weale, London, 1852. [bound in 'Four Treatise on Building', see section 6]
• Henry Stephens & R S Burn. The Book of Farm-Buildings. Edinburgh 1861.
• R S Burn. Practical Architecture. London, no date [c 1875] [Link]

François Cointeraux

François Cointeraux. Avis au Peuple sur l’Économie de son Bois (author, Paris 1806).

BOUND COMPILATION A

• François Cointeraux. École d'Architecture Rurale. Cahiers 2 and 3, Paris 1791. Contains one of the first published descriptions of pisé de terre construction, expanded in his Modèles,
• François Cointeraux. Architecture Périodique. Paris 1792.
• BOUND COMPILATION B

• François Cointeraux. École d'Architecture Rurale. Second Cahier, dans lequel on traite: Ie, de l'art du Pisé ou de la Massivation, 2e. des qualités des terres propres au pisé, 3e. des détails de la main d'œuvre, 4e. du prix de la toise, 5e. des enduits, 6e. des peintures. Author, Paris 1791. Contains one of the first published descriptions of pisé de terre construction, expanded in his Modèles.

• François Cointeraux, Traité sur la Construction des Manufactures, et des Maisons de Campagne.  Author, Paris 1791. A combination of the two Works below: Maisons de Campagne and Fabriques des Étoffes.
• François Cointeraux. Architecture Périodique. Bureau de l’École d’Architecture Rurale, Paris 1792.

  BOUND COMPILATION C

• two plates, ‘Maison de la terre ou de pisé décorée’; ‘Même maison de terre sortant do la main de l’ouvrier’.
• François Cointeraux, École d'Architecture Rurale, Premier Cahier, ... a bâtir solidement les maisons de plusieurs étages avec la terre seule.  2nd ed, author Paris 1794 [1790].
• François Cointeraux, Nouvelle Manière d'Éteindre les Incendies. Bureau de l’École d’Architecture Rurale, Paris 1791.
• two plates repeated, ‘Maison de la terre ou de pisé décorée’; ‘Même maison de terre sortant do la main de l’ouvrier’
• François Cointeraux, École d'Architecture Rurale. Second Cahier,  dans lequel on traite: Ie, de l'art du Pisé ou de la Massivation, 2e. des qualités des terres propres au pisé, 3e. des détails de la main d'œuvre, 4e. du prix de la toise, 5e. des enduits, 6e. des peintures. Author, Paris 1791,
• François Cointeraux, Traité sur la Construction de Maisons de Campagne. Author Paris 1791.
• [François Cointeraux], Dissertation ou Nouvelle Manière de Construire avec la Plus Grande Économie les Fabriques des Étoffes en Soie, Laine, Fil, Coton et Autres (no publication details.
• François Cointeraux, École d'Architecture Rurale, Quatrième Cahier, dans lequel on traite du Nouveau Pisé inventé par l'auteur; de la construction de ses outils etc.  3rd ed, l’École d’Architecture Rurale, Paris 1806.
• BOUND COMPILATION D

• François Cointeraux. Description Curieuse at Instructive, des Modèles en Pisé. No title page [Paris 1792].
• François Cointeraux. Projet et Dessin des Contrafacteurs de l'École d'Architecture Rurale, &c. (no publication details). A broadside against imitators of the École.].

Greenhouses & horticulture

• [J C Loudon] The Green-House Companion, &c. Harding, Triphook & Lepard. London 1824.
• Charles McIntosh, The Greenhouse, Hot House, and Stove. New ed, Wm S Orr & Co. London 1840.
• Every Lady's Guide to her own Greenhouse, Hothouse, and Conservatory, &c. William S Orr & Co, Lonbdon 1851. [Link]
• L R Taft, Greenhouse Construction: a Complete Manual on the Building, Heating, Ventilating and Arrangement of Greenhouses, &c. Orange Judd, New York 1894.

See also:

(sec 55) Thomson, Poetical Works. Thomson was a figure in the English landscape Movement, and the original edition of his poem The Seasons was illustrated by William Kent in the picturesque taste.

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