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.

People / Organizations

• F. P. (Author)

Imprint

Dublin: printed by James Hoey, Sen. and James Hoey, Jun. at the Mercury in Skinner-Row, M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]

Publication year

1758-1758

ESTC No.

N15223

Grub Street ID

4952

Description

[8],120p. ; 12⁰

Note

'The carpenter's plain and exact rule' has a separate titlepage, which has "The twelfth edition", and bears the imprint: printed by J. Hoey.