BOOK - RURAL HOMES, GERVASE WHEELER.

RURAL HOMES, BY GERVASE WHEELER. ''Or Sketches of Houses Suited to American Country Life with original plans and designs.'' 1867, New York; George Woodward. Publisher's green cloth. 298 pp., 10 plates. Wheeler was an English architect who migrated to America. This book is an early promoter of the Stick Style. His final chapter ''Rural Architecture as a Fine Art'' describes an American town as it could be. Condition: fair, intact.