A set of tables of solid and superficial measure : In the most familiar method: Shewing at Sight the Content of any Piece of Timber, Plank, or Board, used in Architecture or Naval Work. The Method of finding the Content of unequal-sided Timber, and to reduce Mahogany or Marble into Superficial Inch Feet: Together with the Number of Superficial Feet of different Thickness, from 1-4th of an Inch to 12 Inches (at one View), contained in a Foot or Ton Solid:-Also Practical Examples and Customs, in the different Artificers Work, relating to Building. The Fourth Edition, with Improvements. To which are now added, The Prices of the several Artificers Work above mentioned, with Directions concerning Allowances requisite to be made, for various Defects in Timber. By P. Levi Hodgson, Measurer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodgson, Ph. Levi.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

New set of tables of solid and superficial measure

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Measurement--Early works to 1800.

Measurement.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,207 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Dublin : T. Ewing, M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

The second edition was published in Dublin in 1763 under the title 'A new set of tables of solid and superficial measure. .. '.

Price from imprint: price 3s. 3d.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T195143.

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