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Several Original Designs

FOR MODERN STYLES OF MANTELS AND FURNITURE, PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR THIS WORK.

NEW YORK:

BICKNELL & COMSTOCK, 194 BROADWAY.

PREFACE.

N preparing the following collection of designs, we have not so much intended to offer new and original studies, as to make a compilation from various published works. As the name implies, this is a "Specimen Book of Architectural Designs." Each design is suggestive and of value in itself, and together they probably offer a larger opportunity of selection, for the price, than any work published; being in fact an epitome of almost all recent architectural publications. In several cases descriptions have been given, and in some specifications and bill of materials; where cost has been given our purpose has been to avoid underestimating, and at the present low cost of building, the work can in many localities be executed at less than the estimates here given. We believe this collection will be of great practical value to those contemplating building or remodeling. For the convenience of the reader who may wish to execute any particular design, we have in every case named the work from which each example has been taken, and can invariably supply the publication referred to. For the designs of Mantels and Furniture shown on frontispiece and pages 65-68, we are indebted to Warren Ward & Co., manufacturers of Artistic Furniture, of this city, who have had these designs engraved expressly for this work.

This little book will, we think, be especially valuable to two classes: Those who wish a home, and those who build for the purpose of investment. With many thanks to our patrons, for their past generous appreciation, and with a full determination to merit a continuation of the same, we remain, Yours to serve, NEW YORK, Apr. 1, 1880.

BICKNELL & COMSTOCK, ৩৭৩৩৩ ৩৩৩ Low-priced Cottage, cost about $750.00. From "Bicknell's Village Builder and Supplement." One large quarto vol., 77 plates. Price, $10.00.