The miner's guide : or, compleat miner. Containing, I. A succinct account of a vein in the earth, and by what Names Veins are distinguished, with a short Account of their Progress. II. The Customs, Laws and Articles of the High and Low-Peak, together with several private Liberties; the last Edition compared with the true Original Copies, and several Errors corrected. And all their Bills of Plaint, Customs, Cross-Bills, Arrests, Plaintiff's Cases, or Briefs; with all other Forms necessary for all Miners and Maintainers of Mines, within each Manour, Lordship, or Wapentake. III. An Account of the Load-Stone, with the first Invention of the Compass; to which is joined Houghton's Dialing and Levelling, illustrated with Variety of additional Examples. IV. Several curious and useful Tables, in most Branches in Mining, by Inspection; useful to both Masters, Overseers, and Others, concerned in the Mineral Way. V. A brief Account of the Assaying the two Metals, Lead and Copper. The whole interspers'd with Variety of curious Observations. By William Hardy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, William, writer on mining.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mining law--England--Derbyshire.

Mining law.

Mining engineering--Early works to 1800.

Mining engineering.

Mines and mineral resources--England--Derbyshire.

Mines and mineral resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii,[1],234,[2]p.,plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Miner's guide

Place of Publication:

Sheffield : printed by Francis Lister, [1748]

Notes:

With a final errata leaf.

Price from imprint: price Unbound 3 s. Bound 7 s. 6 d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T88007.

OCLC:

642720882