Research Catalog

Title

Brick pavement and fencewalls : authentic details for design and restoration / Peter Joel Harrison.

Author

Harrison, Peter Joel, 1949-

Publication

New York : John Wiley, ©2000.

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Details

Description

xvi, 263 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

One of the oldest and most versatile building materials available, brick is used for period landscape design in walkways, entry pavements, courtyards, terraces, porticoes, steps, and fencewalls. With the increased interest in traditional landscape design, this book will appeal to anyone who is interested in restoring old brickwork or in creating new brickwork with a historic feel.

Subject

• Pavements, Brick > Charts, diagrams, etc
• Brick walls > Charts, diagrams, etc
• Historic sites > Atlantic Coast (U.S.) > Pictorial works
• Brick walls
• Historic sites
• Pavements, Brick
• United States > Atlantic Coast

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works.
• Charts, diagrams, etc.
• Pictorial works.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

BRICK PAVEMENT. -- Of Brick. -- Of Paving. -- Of Courses and Bonds. -- Of Joinings. -- Of Corners. -- Of Edging and Borders. -- Of Walks. -- Of Entrance Pavements. -- Of Court Yards, Terraces, Piazzas and Porticoes. -- Of Steps. -- FENCE -- WALLS. -- Of Brick Work. -- Of Courses and Bonds. -- Of Elivations and Profiles. -- Of Fence-Walls. -- Of Pierced Work. -- Of Garden Entrances. -- Of Pillars. -- Of Capitals for Pillars. -- Of Balls for Pillars. -- Of Urns and Decorative Ornaments for Pillar. -- Dictionarial Index.

ISBN

• 0471383376
• 9780471383376

LCCN

99057434

OCLC

• ocm42786362
• 42786362
• SCSB-1478403

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library