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The new practical builder, and workman's companion: : containing a full display and elucidation of the most recent and skilful methods, pursued by architects and artificers, in the various departments of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, masonry, slating, plumbing, painting, glazing, plastering, &c. &c. : Including, also, new treatises on geometry, theoretical and practical, trigonometry, conic sections, perspective, shadows, and elevations; a summary of the art of building; copious accounts of building materials, strength of timber, cements, &c. ; a description of the tools used by the different workmen; an extensive glossary of the technical terms peculiar to each department; and the theory and practice of the five orders, as employed in decorative architecture. / By Peter Nicholson, architect. ; The whole illustrated and embellished with numerous plates, from original drawings and designs, made expressly for this work, by the author, and correctly engraved, under his immediate inspection, by Mr. W. Symns, and other eminent artists..
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Building.
- Building materials.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. (596, 8 p.; [185] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., plans ; 28 cm.
- Other Title:
- New practical builder, &c
- Nicholson's new practical builder, and workman's companion
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for Thomas Kelly, 17 Paternoster Row., 1823. [i.e. 1825]
- Contents:
- v. 1. Text
- v. 2. Plates.
- Notes:
- Engravings dated 1822-1825.
- Added engraved title page to v. 1 reads: Nicholson's New practical builder and workman's companion, in carpentry, masonry, &c. &c with the theory and practice of the five orders, as employed in decorative architecture.
- V. 2 includes 183 illustrations engraved by W. Symns, E. Turrell, H. Adlard, R. Roffe, J. Edwards, A. Dick, E. Kennion and G. Gladwin, after P. Nicholson, M.A. Nicholson and R. Elsam.
- Frontispiece is engraved by Fenner and has date of 1825; title reads: The house of Fulton Alexander Esqe. at Patrick near Glasgow.
- T.p. has imprint date of 1823, but LC and Archer record title as actually published in 1825, since some engravings are dated as late as 1825. Cf. RLIN DCLC97107407B; Archer, p. 610.
- Apparently some copies were issued with an undated, 180 p. version of R, Elsam's "Practical builders perpetual price book."
- Caption title: The new practical builder, &c.
- "Printed by Weed and Rider, Little Britain, London."--T.p. verso.
- "Arrangement and description of plates": p. 563-578.
- "Glossary of technical terms and index": p. 579-596.
- Errata: p. 596.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in half leather, previously rebacked with raised bands and marbled boards.
- Athenaeum copy wanting t.p. to v. 2?; engraved frontispiece is bound at front of v. 2; library copy does not include "Practical builder's perpetual price book" which was issued with some copies.
- Athenaeum copy: Binder's title: Nicholson's practical builder.
- Athenaeum copy includes 8 p. bound in at end of v. 1 of case notes from "Barfield vs. Nicholson and Kelly," addressed to both Houses of Parliament, at the Vice Chancellors's Court, Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 27th 1824.
- Cited in:
- Archer, J. Literature of Brit. domestic architecture, 225.1
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