Rural Residences, Consisting of Designs, Original and Selected, for Cottages, Farm-Houses, Villas, and Village Churches, With Brief Explanations, Estimates and a Specification of Materials, Construction, Etc., by Alexander Jackson Davis, New Introduction by Jane B. Davies, Da Capo Press, New York, 1980, cloth, 10 x 14.5", 4to

Fair condition.  Minor wear to boards.  Title in gilt on front board and spine.  Bookplate for Maurice Robert Des Marais on front pastedown.  Marginalia on flyleaf.  Minor toning throughout textblock.  Includes 8 architectural designs and 9 colored lithographs.  Please see photos.

This is a limited edition reprint of the original work, a publishing event that is considered significant for "at least three reasons", those reasons being "after a lapse of many years, it again makes available one of the rarest architectural books published in American by an American; the author of the new introduction is [...] a scholar known to every historian of American architecture for her exhaustive study of the Davis papers; [...] (and) its color plates make this one of the most ambitious undertakings of a publishing house known for the high quality of its reprints".