Various methods to prevent fires in houses and shipping, and for preserving the lives of people at fires, with an account of remarkable accidents by fire, in different Parts of the World, selected historically, for the space of One Hundred and Eight Years, to this present Period: Wherein The Negligence, of Architects and Builders, in constructing Buildings in Town and Country, is pointed out: and Shewing, That the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences is a public Benefit to those Commercial Islands. With Abstracts from the last Act of Parliament, to regulate Buildings, and prevent Fires in London. Necessary to be known in all Families, from the lowest Peasant to the highest Peer in the Realm. Approved by the Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
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- MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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London : printed and sold by T. Evans, No. 54, Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Southern, St. James's Street, MDCCLXXV. [1775]
Physical description
xiii,[1],81,[3]p. ; 80.
References note
ESTC T92165
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