[July, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
1876 .] 
Valuable Architectural Books 
For Carpenters and Builders. 
Hussey’s 
National Cottage Architecture; 
OR 
Homes for Every One. 
With Designs, Plans, Details, Specifications, and Cost; 
with Working-Scale Drawings complete, so that houses may 
be built direct from the hook. Adapted to the popular de¬ 
mand for practical, handsome, and economical homes. 
Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Atwood’s 
Country and Suburban Houses. 
Illustrated with about 150 engravings. Hints and Sug¬ 
gestions as to tlie General Principles of House-building, 
Style, Cost, Location, etc. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Monckton’s 
National Stair-Builder. 
Is a complete Work on Stair-lluilding and Hand-Railing. 
Fully explained and illustrated by large scale diagrams in 
two colors, with designs for Staircases, Newels, Balusters, 
and Hand-Rails. Royal Octavo. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Monckton’s 
National Carpenter and Joiner. 
A complete work, covering the whole science of Carpen¬ 
try, Joinery, Hoofing, Framing, etc., fully explained and 
illustrated by.large scale diagrams in two colors. Royal 
Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Woodward’s 
National Architect. 
1,000 Designs, Plans, and Details, for Country, Suburban, 
and Village Houses; with Perspective Views,Front and Side 
Elevations, Sections, Full Detail Drawings, Specifications, 
and Estimates. Also, Detail Drawings to Working Scale, of 
Brackets, Cornices, French Roofs, Sectional and Framing 
Plans of French Roofs, Dormer-Windows for French Roofs, 
Bay-Windows, Verandas, Porches, Plaster Finish, Corncies, 
Ceilings, Hard-wood Mantels, and all that is required by a 
Builder to design, specify, erect, and finish in the most ap- 
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Woodward's 
Country Homes. 
150 Designs and Plans, with Description of the Manner of 
Constructing Balloon Frames. Post-paid, $1,50. 
Woodward’s 
Suburban and Country Houses. 
70 Designs and Plan3, and numerous examples of the 
French Roof. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Woodward’s 
Graperies and Horticultural 
Buildings. 
Designs and Plans of Hot-Beds, Cold-Pits, Propagating 
Houses, Forcing Houses, Hot and Cold Graperies, Green¬ 
houses. Conservatories, Orchard Houses, etc., with the va¬ 
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Jacques’ 
Manual of the House. 
How to Build Dwellings, Barns, Stables, and Out-Build¬ 
ings of all kinds. 126 Designs and Plans. Post-paid, $1.50. 
Wheeler’s 
Rural Homes. 
Houses suited to Country Life. Post paid, $2.00. 
Wheeler’s 
Homes for the People. 
100 Original Designs, with full Descriptions, and Construc¬ 
tive and Miscellaneous Details. Post-paid, $3.00. 
Harney’s 
Barns, Out-Buildings, & Fences 
Containing Designs and Plans of Stables, Farm-Barns, 
Out-Buildings, Gates, Gateways, Fences, Stable Fittings and 
Furniture, with nearly 200 Illustrations. Royal quarto. 
Post-paid, $6.00. 
Cummings’ 
Architectural Details. 
387 Designs and 967 Illustrations of the Various Parts need¬ 
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both for City and Country. Also, Plans and Elevations of 
Houses, Stores, Cottages, and other Buildings. Royal 
Quarto. Post-paid, $10.00. 
CrofT’s 
Progressive 
American Architecture. 
This work presents, in illustration, a great variety of 
Choice and Original Matter, embracing Elevations and 
Plans of Dwellings of various styles, costing from one thou¬ 
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Bank, and Church Buildings; beautiful Perspectives in 
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Stables, &c. Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $10.00. 
Lakey’s 
Village and Country Houses. 
Or, Cheap Houses for All Classes, comprising eighty-four 
p iges of designs. The object, in almost every instance of 
these designs, lias been to secure as large an amount of 
space and comfort as was possible with the least expendi¬ 
ture of money, without neglecting the exterior features of 
each building. Royal Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Eveleth’s 
School-House Architecture. 
A new and original work, containing Seventeen Designs 
for School-houses, Sixty-seven Plates with Perspectives, 
Elevations, Plans. Sections, Details, Specifications, all 
drawn to working scale, with methods of Heating and Ven¬ 
tilation. Large Quarto. Post-paid, $6.00. 
Copley’s 
Plain & Ornamental Alphabets 
Giving examples in all styles, together with Maps, Titles, 
Borders, Meridians, Ciphers, Monograms, Flourishes, etc., 
adapted to the practical use of Surveyors, Civil Engineers, 
Iraughtsmen, Architects, Sign Painters, Schools, etc. 
Post-paid, $3.00. 
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