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, theoretical 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 ...

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:

"The work is illustrated and embellished with numerous plates, from the original drawings and designs, made expressly for the work, by Michael Angelo Nicholson, R. Elsam, W. Inwood, and other eminent architectural artists."

On verso of t.p.: Printed by J. Rider ... London.

Engravings dated 1823-1826.

With: Engraved frontispiece.

T.p. of vol. 2 reads: Architectonick. The new practical builder and workman's companion ...

Local Notes:

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

OCLC:

13617836