The builder's guide, or The carpenter's plain and exact rule, [electronic resource] : Shewing, how to measure carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plaisterers, masons, glaziers, and painters work; also how to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen, with gunter's-line, and goggeshall's description of the sliding-rule. And an explanation of the technical terms, to which is added, two plates, viz. one of a Chinese temple, the other a plan of a fine Chinese garden chair, in curious diamond paleing and lattice work. By Francis Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, Francis, d. 1753.

Standardized Title:

Carpenter's plain and exact rule

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carpenters--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.

Carpenters.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([12],130p.,plates )

Other Title:

Builder's guide, or The carpenter's plain and exact rule,

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by James Hoey, at the Mercury in Skinner-Row, [1750?]

Notes:

Originally entitled 'The carpenter's plain and exact rule'.

Reproduction of original from National Library of Ireland.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T167211.

OCLC:

509100700