The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c. interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building : with a great variety of new and useful tables .. viz. I.A table for the reducing of brickwork of any thickness ... tto the statute thickness of a brick and a half. II. A table which shews how many bricks are sufficient to build any piece of brick-work ... III. A table of tiling, whereby it is shewn how many tiles will cover any roof. IV Vareity of tables, which shews the proper scantling to cut timber for any building, and for valuaing the same ... V.A table of pavements shewing how many bricks ... will pave any floor. VI. ... tables, for shewing the value of ... nails, bolts, hinges, &c. VII. A table of solid measure ... VIII. A table of flat measure ... with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salmon, William, approximately 1703-1779.

Series:

Making of the modern world

Making of the Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building--Estimates--England.

Building.

Building--Early works to 1800.

Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Building materials--Prices.

Building materials.

Building--Estimates.

England.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Fourth edition, revised and corrected.

Other Title:

Compleat and universal estimator

Compleat estimator

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for S. Crowder, 1760.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Engr. front., head-pieces, end-pieces.

Printers list at end.

"Architectural Books Available in America before the Revolution." New Haven: Research Publications, Inc., 1972.

Originally published in 1745 under title: The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's estimator.

Caption title: The compleat estimator.

Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 09566.6.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements. s2005 miunns

OCLC:

65347573

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.