Most recently, G.H.M. Addison has been described as the author and illustrator of the 1885 book by Terry and Oakden. “What to Build and How to Build It: A Few Hints on Domestic, Ecclesiastical and General Architecture.” George Robertson and Co., Melbourne, 1885. [Illustrated by G.H.M. Addison]. [State Library of NSW Rare Book Collection]. This work contains 59 photo-lithographic plates.
Lane and Searle describe Terry and Oakden’s book as demonstrating a “suave familiarity with the principle of ‘fitness for purpose’. Terry and Oakden were not only well versed in the writing of traditional contemporary design […] but […] [their work] shows an awareness of the long debate on the nature of taste and beauty. Their handbook ranges freely over the subject of interior design, offering useful recipes for paint removers and a chapter on the “Philosophy of Decorative Art”. It also offers full page illustrations such as “Scheme for Arrangement and Decoration of A Room.” An expanded summary of Terry and Oakden’s work is included in Lane and Serle’s Australians at home: a documentary history of Australian domestic interiors from 1788 to 1914, p.204-205. For the most recent attribution of this work to Addison, see also SL [State Library] Magazine, Spring, 2012, State Library of NSW, p.33.
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