Late Victorian Interiors and Interior Details
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Tuthill's selections of illustrations include elevations and details of fireplaces, staircases, windows, parlors, libraries, and other interiors of residences, offices, and stores. A practical guide for nineteenth-century architects, carpenters, and builders, this volume remains a fine resource for historians, curators, preservationists, and Victorian home restorers. This edition is enhanced by a selection of advertisements that appeared in the original publication.
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Late Victorian Interiors and Interior Details - William B. Tuthill
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2010, is an unabridged republication of Interiors and Interior Details: Fifty-Two Large Quarto Plates, originally published by William T. Comstock, New York, in 1882. Please note that the plates have been reproduced at 90% of their original size.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Tuthill, William Burnet, 1855–1929.
[Interiors and interior details]
Late Victorian interiors and interior details / William B. Tuthill.—Dover ed.
p.cm.
Originally published: Interiors and interior details. New York : William T.
Comstock, 1882.
9780486138565
1. Interior architecture. 2. Architecture—Details. I. Title.
NA2851.T9 2010
729—dc22
2010020989
Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
47603001
www.doverpublications.com
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
INTRODUCTION
ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.
NOTES ON WOOD FINISH.
LATE VICTORIAN INTERIORS - AND INTERIOR DETAILS
INTRODUCTION
IT HAS become almost a rule, in the erection of our dwellings, for the interior treatment to claim a preponderating part of the attention and thought which is given to the work.
An artistic taste, more or less developed, a very general desire to have those things about us which indicate a cultured refinement, together with a possibly laudable emulation, has given us multitudes of designs, beautiful, unique and original.
Most of these have, in the first instance, been the production of cultivated artists. While their leading has been well followed by a numerous class of fairly-equipped designers, who have given to their work, in many cases, an unusual amount of study, the results have not been artistically what they might have been. Many of the designs are crude