Hills (Chester) The Builder's Guide. A Practical Treatise on Grecian and Roman Architecture, together with Specimens of the Gothic Style..., revised and improved with additions of Villa and School-House Architecture, by H.Austin and Henry Barnard, lithographed frontispiece of Wadsworth Atheneum and 50 plates, 6 double-page, wood-engraved illustrations of schools, some light foxing and soiling (as usual), slight fraying to edges of one or two leaves, contemporary sheep, rubbed, staining to upper cover, but generally a good copy, [Hitchcock 592], folio, Hartford, 1846.

⁂ Important pattern book for Greek Revival architecture in America, distinguished by its large size. First published in 1834 this revised edition contains the only published designs by the prolific Connecticut architect Henry Austin (1804-1891), comprising the view of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford (the first public art museum in America) and designs for four villas.