The new practical builder, and workman's companion : containing a full display and elucidation of the most recent and skilful methods, pursued by architects and artificers, in the various departments of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plumbing, painting, glazing, plastering, &c. &c. : including, also, new treatises on geometry, theorectical and practical, trigonometry, conic sections, perspective, shadows, and elevations : a summary of the art of building ... : an extensive glossary of the technical terms peculiar to each department : and the theory and practice of the five orders, as employed in decorative architecture / by Peter Nicholson ... ; the whole illustrated and embellished with numerious plates, from original drawings and designs, made expressly for this work, by the author, and correctly engraved, under his immediate inspection, by Mr. W. Symns, and other eminent artists.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Thomas Kelly ..., 1823.

Contents:

v.1. Text

v.2. Plates.

Notes:

With: Added engraved title page.

With: Frontispiece engraved.

Verso of title page reads: Printed for Weed and Rider ... London.

Engravings dated 1822-1825.

Local Notes:

With: The practical builder's perpetual price-book. London : Thos. Kelly, 1825.

OCLC:

13617836