The london prices of bricklayers materials and works, both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained: and the common exactions and abuses therein detected Interspersed with Rules for Estimating, Performing and Measuring all Kinds of Plain, Circular, Elliptical, Gothick, Spherical, Spheroidical, Conical and Pyramidical Brick-Works: wherein The Abutments of all Sorts of Arches, And the Manner of Building Brick-Flooring for the prevention of Fire, is clearly explained. The Whole Arithmetically and Geometrically Demonstrated. With a great Variety of Designs for Plain and Rusticated Piers, for Gates, Piazzas, &c. Written for the Use of Gentlemen, Stewards and Workmen in General, and particularly for such Landlords and Tenants who are subject to the Repairs of Buildings. By Batty Langley, architect.

  • Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.
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1748
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London : printed for Archimedes Langley, in Meard's-Court, Dean-Street, Soho, 1748.

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[2],xvii,[1],389,[1]p.,plates ; 80.

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ESTC T11866

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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.

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