The city and country purchaser, and builder's dictionary: or, the compleat builders 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, concern'd in Building; together with the City and Country Prices not only of Workmanship, but of Materials also: The which will be extraordinary Useful in Making of Bargains, or Contracts betwixt the Work-Master and Work Man; and likewise in Computing the Value (or Charge of Erecting) of any Fabrick, Great or Small. Likewise The Explanation of the Terms of Art used by most Workmen. Together with Aphorisms, or Necessary Rules in Building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, and Form, &c. By Richard Neve, Philmath.
- Neve, Richard.
- Date:
- 1726
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Also known as
City and countrey purchaser, and builder's dictionary
Publication/Creation
London : printed for D. Browne, at Temple-Bar ; J. and B. Sprint at the Bell, G. Conyers at the Ring in Little-Britain ; and Ch. Rivington at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1726.
Physical description
[12],xx,[288]p. ; 80.
Contributors
Edition
The second edition, with additions.
References note
ESTC T71409
Goldsmiths', 6442
Hanson, 273n
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.