The builders's pocket-companion : Shewing an easy and practical method for laying down of lines, for all sorts of arches and curves used in house-building, ship-building, gardening, &c. also to make the centers or ribs for vaults or cielings, and brackets for coves, either regular or irregular. Together with true and concise rules to find the lengths, bevels, and moulds for the back of a hip, in any kind of roofs, whether square or bevel, hexagon or pantigon, &c. let their rasters be straight, or curves of different sorts. Extracted from the works of several noted authors: illustrated with variety of examples curiously engraven; and several useful problems added never before printed; by Michael Hoare, carpenter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halfpenny, William, d. 1755.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architects and builders--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.

Architects and builders.

Genre:

Manuals (Handbooks).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,44p.,plates )

Other Title:

Builders's pocket-companion

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Worrall, at the Judge's-Head, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, 1728.

Notes:

Michael Hoare = William Halfpenny.

With a half-title.

Price in square brackets: (Price 1s. 6d.)

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T186507.

OCLC:

509424854