A home for all or The gravel wall and octagon mode of building new, cheap, convenient, superior and adapted to rich and poor
Subtitle: Showing the superiority of this gravel concrete over brick, stone, and frame houses; manner of making and depositing it; its cost; outside finish; clay houses; defects in small, low, long-winged, and cottage houses; the greater capacity, beauty, compactness, and utility of octagon houses; different plans; the author's residence; green and ice houses; filters; grounds; shrubbery; fruits and their culture; roofing; school-houses and churches; barns and out buildings; board and plank walls; the working-man's dwellings, etc., etc
By: By O.S. Fowler, author of various works on phrenology. ; [One line of quotation]
Contributors: Fowler & Wells; New York Stereotype Association
Edition: Stereotyped edition: revised and enlarged.
Publisher: Fowler and Wells, publishers no. 308 Broadway. Boston: no. 142 Washington St. Philadelphia: no. 231 Arch Street.
Published: 1853
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Domestic Architecture; Building materials; Designs and plans; Architecture
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes quotation on title page.

Copyright 1853 by O.S. Fowler.

"New York Stereotype Association, 201 William Street."--verso of title page.

Three publisher's catalogues, "Works on phrenology, " "Works on water cure, " and "Works on physiology, " p. 4, 4, 4 at end.

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