A booke named Tectonicon : brieflie shewing the exact measuring, and speedie reckoning all manner of land, squares, timber, stone, steeples, pillers, globes, &c. Further, declaring the perfect making and large vse of the carpenters ruler, containing a quandrant geometricall: comprehending also the rare vse of the squire. And in the end a little treatise adioyning, opening the composition and appliancie of an instrument, called the profitable staffe. With other things pleasant and necessarie, most conducible for surueyers, landmeaters, ioyners, carpenters, and masons. Published by Leonard Digges Gentleman, in the yeere of our Lord, 1556.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Digges, Leonard, -approximately 1559.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1480:15.

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1513:11.

Standardized Title:

Tectonicon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measurement--Early works to 1800.

Measurement.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves, 26 leaves, 2 unnumbered folded tables : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Tectonicon.

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By Felix Kyngston, dwelling in Pater-noster row, ouer against the signe of the Checker, 1605.

Notes:

Reproductions of the originals in Cambridge University Library and the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Appears at reel 1480 (Cambridge University Library copy) and at reel 1513 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy).

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1978, 1979. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1480:15, 1513:11). s1978 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 6852.

OCLC:

61335837