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, and others.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.

Contributor:

Carpenters' Company Library Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Rider and Weed., Printer.

Kelly, Thomas, publisher., Publisher.

Nicholson, Michael Angelo, -1842, Illustrator.

Elsam, Richard (Architect), Illustrator.

Inwood, William., Illustrator.

Symns, W., Engraver.

Adlard, Henry., Engraver.

Dick, Archibald L., approximately 1805-approximately 1855, Engraver.

Roffe, Richard., Engraver.

Kennion, E., Engraver.

Turrell, Edmund., Engraver.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shades and shadows.

Timber.

Building materials.

Carpentry--Tools.

Carpentry.

Architecture--Orders.

Architecture.

Architecture--Details.

Building--Estimates.

Building.

Architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Geometry.

Plumbing.

Physical Description:

2 v. : 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, 1828.

Notes:

"The work is illustrated and embellished with numerous plates, from original drawings and designs, made expressly for this work, by the author, and his son Michael Angelo Nicholson, and correctly engraved, under their immediate inspection, by Mr. W. Symns, and other eminent architectural artists."

Running title: The new practical builder &c.

Added t.p. has architectural border around title reading: Nicholson's new practical builder and workman's companion ...

No other copies of this edition recorded.

"Printed by Weed and Rider, Little Britain, London."--t.p. verso (v.1)

Pagination: v.1. [4], 596 p., [1] leaf of plates; v.2: [182] leaves of plates (2 folded).

Includes added engraved title page and [183] leaves of plates dated variously from 1822-1826. Plate LXIV not included in work. Frontispiece in v.1 is unsigned engraving of house of Alexander Fulton Esq. Most plates in v.2 engraved by W. Symns, H. Adlard, A. Dick, R. Roffe, Edw. Kennion and E Turrell after M.A. Nicholson, R. Elsam and W. Inwood.

Local Notes:

Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.

Carpenters' Company set has accession numbers 3370 (v.1) and 3390 (v.2); first recorded in 1840 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as nos. 127-128; added title page bound at front of v.2 and [2] p. "Directions to the binder" misbound preceding preface in v.1.

OCLC:

233832284