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]
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Publication/Creation
Dublin : printed by James Hoey, Sen. and James Hoey, Jun. at the Mercury in Skinner-Row, M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
Physical description
[8],120p. ; 120.
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References note
ESTC N15223
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.