The builder's guide, or The carpenter's plain and exact rule : Shewing, how to measure carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plaisterers, masons, glaziers, and painters work; also how to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen, with gunter's-line, and goggeshall's description of the sliding-rule. And an explanation of the technical terms, to which is added, two plates, viz. one of a Chinese temple, the other a plan of a fine Chinese garden chair, in curious diamond paleing and lattice work. By Francis Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Francis, -1753.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Standardized Title:

Carpenter's plain and exact rule

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carpenters--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Carpenters.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Manuals (Handbooks)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages,130 pages,plates ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by James Hoey, at the Mercury in Skinner-Row, [1750?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Originally entitled 'The carpenter's plain and exact rule'.

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 National Library of Ireland.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T167211.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.