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Designs in carpentry, containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, anglebrackets, and cornices. By Abraham Swan.
Swan, Abraham.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The builder's price-book; containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Including the journeymen's prices. A new edition, corrected. By an experienced surveyor.
Experienced Surveyor.Date: M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]- Books
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The builder's price-book; containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Including the journeymen's prices. The seventh edition corrected. By an experienced surveyor.
Experienced Surveyor.Date: 1789- Books
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The carpenter's and joiner's repository: or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms, &c. &c. a Great Variety of Stair-Cases, On a Plan entirely New, and easy to be understood. Circular Circular Soffits, flewing and winding, in straight and circular Walls, Groins, Angle Brackets, circular and elliptical Sky-Lights; and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their circular Bars, Shop Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The builder's guide, shewing, the qualities, quantities, proportions, and Rates or Value of all materials relating to building; with the best Method of preparing many of them. Also The Customs and Methods of Measuring of all Artificers Work concerned in Building; the Prices not only of Workmanship but of Materials; which will be extraordinarily useful in making of Bargains between the Undertaker and Workman: With Gunter's Line, Coggeshall's Description of the Sliding-Rule, the Extraction and Uses of the Square and Cube Roots, &c. Together with aphorisms or necessary rules in building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, Form, &c. To which is added, the ground rules of architecture. Likewise, an explanation of technical terms used in this work. By F. P. builder.
F. P.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]