The English born architect Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to America in 1850 and within 20 years won a reputation as one of America's greatest landscape architects.
Co-designer (with Frederick Law Olmstead and others) of a number of New York City's principle parks (Central Park, Morningside and Riverside Parks, Prospect Park in Brooklyn), South Park in Chicago and the Metropolitan and Natural History Museum in New York City, Vaux was a major influence in the development of a national architecture in America.
Villas and Cottages (1857), his only book, forms a record of his early work, in collaboration with Andrew Jackson Downing and others, in the field of domestic architecture.
It contains 39 designs for well-styled, efficient and low-priced houses -- rural and suburban cottages, villas and town houses built in the Hudson Valley during the 1850s.
Each design is supplemented with detailed floor plans, perspective views, a lively commentary, and vignettes illustrating various details.
CONDITION: New old stock, light wear from shelving only.
