Uncommon antique illustrated guide to building American Victorian homes.

SUPPLEMENT TO BICKNELL'S VILLAGE BUILDER, containing eighteen modern designs for country and suburban houses of moderate cost, with elevations, plans, section and a variety of details, all drawn to scale, also a full set of specifications, with approved form of contract, and estimates of cost.

Published by A. J. Bicknell & Co., Architectural Book Publishers, New York, 1871. Folio, hardbound in Publisher's textured brown cloth with embossed gilt printing on the front cover, 13.75" x 10.5" inches, brown endpapers, 70 un-numbered pages, richly illustrated with 20 architectural plates (one printed in color) printed on one side only, plus 17 pages of advertisements (including several printed in color, the final leaf being a full page color ad for Minton's floor tiles). GOOD CONDITION: Covers have edge, corner and spine-end wear, light bubbling/wear to the cloth, but remain solid and the gilt bright. Internally, hinges are tender but holding, some smudges in the margins from age/use, otherwise the inner pages are tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Uncommon.

This separately issued supplement to Bicknell's Village Builder (1870) includes designs by Architects D. B. Provoost, T. Thompson, C. Graham & Son, C. T. Rathbone, Lyman Underwood and B. H. Brooks. The plates provide scaled drawings of elevations and floor plans and include the estimated costs to build the homes at 1870 prices!