The builder's magazine : or, a universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. AS Well AS For Every Gentleman who would wish to be a competent Judge of the elegant and necessary Art of Building. Consisting of designs in architecture, In Every Stile and Taste, from the most magnificent and superb Structures, down to the most simple and unadorned; together with the plans and sections, serving as an unerring Assistant in the Construction of any Building, from a Palace to a Cottage. In Which Will BE Introduced Grand and Elegant Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Ciblings, Doors, Windows, &c. proper for Halls, Saloons, Vestibules, State Rooms, Dining Rooms, Parlours, Drawing Rooms, Anti Rooms, Dressings Rooms, Bed Rooms, &c. Together With Designs for Churches, Hospitals, and other Public Buildings. Also, Plans, Elevations, and Sections, in the Greek, Roman, and Gothic Taste, calculated to embellish Parks, Gardens, Forests, Woods, Canals, Mounts, Vistos, Islands, extensive Views, &c. The whole forming a complete system of architecture, in all its Branches, and so disposed, as to render the Surveyor, Carpenter, Mason, &c. equally capable to erect a Cathedral, a Mansion, a Temple, or a Rural Cot. By a Society of architects.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, John, 1748-1817.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Building--Early works to 1800.

Building.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,345 pages, 1 unnumbered page,8;100 pages,CLXXXV plates ; 4⁰

Edition:

A new edition.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for E. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, in Ludgate Street; and sold by all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

A Society of architects = John Carter who signs the description of the plates.

First published in parts 1774-78 and now reissued with a different titlepage.

With an eight-page, 'Correct list of the prices allowed .. to the several artificers concerned in building'.

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 British Library.

Cited in:

Roscoe, A68 (3)

English Short Title Catalog, T118296.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.