Description

Board of Regents, Gunston Hall and Hammond-Harwood House Association, [Published date: 1958; reprinted 1970]. Hardcover, xiii, 175 pp; 26 cm; black and white illustrations; map on endpapers. First edition originally published 1958; this is the 1970 reprint. Good+ in good dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's name and dates on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked with occasional light spotting. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears and light creasing along edges. Light to moderate overall scuffing, aging, fading and soiling to jacket as well with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. A biography and architectural monograph exploring the English-trained joiner William Buckland's American career, including his design and carving work at Gunston Hall and the Hammond-Harwood House. The authors draw on archival records and pattern-book sources to trace his apprenticeship in England and subsequent contributions in colonial Virginia and Maryland. Contents include: Preface; English background; Virginia and the Masons; Gunston Hall; Richmond County; Maryland; Buckland's Annapolis; Last Years; Postscript; Appendices: Indenture of Apprenticeship; Indenture of Service; Mortgage Securing McCall's Loan; Buckland Accounts in Lloyd Ledgers; Inventory of Estate; Final Account; Notes; Index.