Palliser's Useful Details, Vol. I, April 1881
New York: Palliser, Palliser & Co., 1881. Hardcover. Teal paper/boards with brown leather spine. Decorative title square pasted down. Folio size (26" x 20"). Cover sheet, contents page, No other text pages and with 40 pp. architectural drawings in bw. Poor- (Covers are detached, soiled, bumped, and peeling, but present; pages are too fragile to collate; most pages have chipping at edges to the degree that small pieces have chipped off. Main parts of plates are clean and clear, but plates would need to be either photographed and/or put on archival backing for preservation and use. Ex-lib. copy with plate inside cover. No title page, contents page or text material (either missing or never included). Item #147147
Palliser, Palliser & Company of New York was widely considered the most influential pattern book publishers of the late 19th century. For a small fee, prospective homeowners, builders, and contractors could write to Palliser and obtain a set of architectural plans with elevations and perspective views for the most popular architectural styles of the day. The drawings herein are of architectural decoration and ornamentation of all kinds. This volume measures just shy of 26" x 20" and is complete, with 40 plates. Plates 12-24 are numbered near the bottom center of the sheet, and plates 25-40 are numbered on the far left lower edge. Plate 15 was printed as "16" and the "6" is inked over as a "5." Printed on the thinnest, most fragile paper with minor to moderate (1.5") tears here and there, sometimes to sections of sheets in the same spot.
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