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The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c. interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building : with a great variety of new and useful tables ... viz. I.A table for the reducing of brickwork of any thickness ... tto the statute thickness of a brick and a half. II. A table which shews how many bricks are sufficient to build any piece of brick-work ... III. A table of tiling, whereby it is shewn how many tiles will cover any roof. IV Vareity of tables, which shews the proper scantling to cut timber for any building, and for valuaing the same ... V.A table of pavements shewing how many bricks ... will pave any floor. VI. ... tables, for shewing the value of ... nails, bolts, hinges, &c. VII. A table of solid measure ... VIII. A table of flat measure ... with a compleat index to the whole
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The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c. interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building : with a great variety of new and useful tables ... viz. I.A table for the reducing of brickwork of any thickness ... tto the statute thickness of a brick and a half. II. A table which shews how many bricks are sufficient to build any piece of brick-work ... III. A table of tiling, whereby it is shewn how many tiles will cover any roof. IV Vareity of tables, which shews the proper scantling to cut timber for any building, and for valuaing the same ... V.A table of pavements shewing how many bricks ... will pave any floor. VI. ... tables, for shewing the value of ... nails, bolts, hinges, &c. VII. A table of solid measure ... VIII. A table of flat measure ... with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmon.
Edition
Fourth edition, revised and corr.
Manufacture
London : Printed for S. Crowder, 1760.
Physical Description
1 page leaves, ii, 8 unnumbered pages, 187 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 4to.
1 online resource.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Engr. front., head-pieces, end-pieces.
Printers list at end.
"Architectural Books Available in America before the Revolution." New Haven: Research Publications, Inc., 1972.
Originally published in 1745 under title: The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's estimator.
Caption title: The compleat estimator.
Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University.
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 09566.6.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.
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Compleat and universal estimator
Compleat estimator
Making of the modern world. Part I, 1450-1850.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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May 16, 2021
Series
The Making of the Modern World, Part I : The Goldsmiths'-Kress Collection, 1450-1850
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