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 1058 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. chaste design for such a library was sent us by Mr. Field, from the following descriptio > of which, by that gentleman, any young Architect may embody it in light and shade : — " The dimensions of this room are about thirty feet by eigh- teen feet, and it is thirteen feet high. The ceiling is surrounded by a large cove, intersected by arches over the divisions of the book-shelves, five in number lengthwise, and three breadth- wise, of the apartment. The walls are entirely covered with shelves, except where the en- trance door is shown in the centre of one end of the room, and where there are spaces for two or three windows, corre- sponding with the recess for the door, on the side opposite to the fireplace. The pilasters and entablature may be exe- cuted in scagliola marble, and the cove and ceiling may be coloured a light tint, to con- trast with the pilasters and the graining of the woodwork. The books are secured by brass lattice doors. If a sky-light in the ceiling were in- troduced in lieu of windows, the uniformity of the Design, and the capacity of the library, would be increased." SuBSECT. 5. Grecian and Modern Furniture for the Drawingroom and Music-Room. 2104. Couches. Figs. 1915 and 1916 are two Designs for couches. In the second, the castors are sunk in the legs ; and to each there is a loose squab (a sort of mattress