Plate 24. TWO PINERIES, AND A PEACHERY. Executed for THOMAS PORTER, Esqr. Rockbear House, Devon
Information
Title
Plate 24. TWO PINERIES, AND A PEACHERY. Executed for THOMAS PORTER, Esqr. Rockbear House, Devon
Record type
Digitised Book Plate Collection
Original Reference
BP/5930-1001/24
Author or creator
Josiah Taylor (London, England); bookseller, publisher
Date
01 Sep 1806
Scope & content
Coloured engraved plate depicting designs for two 'pineries' and a 'peachery'. Includes two transverse sections, an elevation, plan and a scale bar to the bottom. Described in the book as having 'one fire to each of the three houses …. There are steps up from the peach-house to the pineries, as the floor of the peach-house is lower than the back part of that of the pineries'. The book plate bears the imprints 'Transverse Section of Peachery', 'Transverse Section of Pinery', 'Elevation', 'Plan' and 'London, Published Septr. 1st. 1806, by J. Taylor, 59 High Holborn'. From the book 'Plans, elevations and sections, of hot-houses' by George Tod