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The constitution of the incorporated Practical House Carpenters' Society of the City and County of Philadelphia. : Together with rules & regulations for measuring & valuing house carpenters' work, 1812.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1812 Practical House
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Practical House Carpenters' Society of the City and County of Philadelphia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Practical House Carpenters' Society of the City and County of Philadelphia.
- Building--Estimates.
- Building.
- Buildings--Specifications.
- Buildings.
- Carpentry--Prices.
- Carpentry.
- Carpentry--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Building trades--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Building trades.
- Trade assocations--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Trade assocations.
- Architecture, Domestic--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Carpenters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Societies, etc.
- Carpenters.
- Physical Description:
- 80 p., 9 leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia : s.n., 1812?]
- Notes:
- "Incorporated June 29, 1811."
- "Present officers of the Practical House Carpenters' Society. Members.": p. 14-15.
- Plates drawn by William Strickland and engraved by William Kneass.
- Only plates 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are numbered.
- Signatures: [A]-K⁴.
- Includes index.
- 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 Library has 2 copies of title.
- Carpenters' Company Library copy 1 inscribed: Presented to the Carpenters' Company by Samuel R. Marriner. Marriner was a member of Carpenters' Company from 1867-1906; copy has accession number 5626.
- Carpenters' Company Library copy 2 incomplete: copy includes only 4 plates; wanting p. 35-38, p. 53-56 and all after p. 66; bequest of Charles E. Peterson with a letter of gift from his estate laid in.
- Cited in:
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1777
- Shaw & Shoemaker 26510
- OCLC:
- 231694744
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