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The modern builders' guide: / by Minard Lafever. Architect. ; Illustrated by eighty-seven copperplate engravings.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1833 Lafever
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lafever, Minard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architecture.
- Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Building.
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Architecture--Terminology.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Building--Handbooks, manuals etc.
- Carpentry drafting.
- Geometry.
- Physical Description:
- 146 p., 88 [i.e., 86], [1] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 32 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York: : Henry C. Sleight,--Collins & Hannay. Stereotyped by J.S. Redfield & Co., 1833.
- Notes:
- Frontispiece has engraved title and an illustration of, and plan for a country villa designed by J. Gallier. Plate engraved by W.S. Barnard after Gallier and is signed at bottom: Plates printed by Wm. D. Smith.
- Engravings by W.S. Barnard, Wm. D. Smith, H. Fossette and Wm. B. Folger after Lafever, J. Gallier, J.H. Dakin, and Rothaafs.
- Copyright 1833 by Henry C. Sleight.
- "Sleight & Van Norden, print."--t.p. verso.
- "Glossary of technical terms from Nicholson's New practical builder" p. [135]-146.
- Includes [87] leaves of plates numbered 1-88 with plates 54-55 omitted in numbering. With the inclusion of frontispiece, the total number of plates is in fact 87.
- 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 copy first recorded in 1857 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as no. 502 and in the 1857 Carpenters' Company Library inventory inventory as no. 355.
- Carpenters' Company copy inscribed; John H. Ketcham, Dec. 8, 1872 from Mrs. Conovor.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints 19671
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 692
- OCLC:
- 232548259
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