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Period 18th century

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Subject Terms Building -- Early works to 1800.

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1. The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...
Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:
[6], 4 pages, [76] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The rudiments of architecture, or, the young workman's instructor : in two parts : ... with twenty three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary ...

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Date:
1773
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
1799
Physical Description:
v, [30], 24 p., [152] leaves of plates (1 folded) : chiefly ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits : rules of carpentry, to find the length and backing of hips, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails, fixing the carriages, newels, &c. : frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. in the newest taste : with plans and elevations of gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description:
[16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor : in two parts ... : with twenty-three elegant designs of buildings ... : to which is added, The Builder's dictionary.

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Date:
1775
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 127, 6, [16] p., [70] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Palladio Londinensis, or, The London art of building : in three parts. : I. Containing a demonstration of all geometrical problems ... : III. copiously treating of the several kinds of stair-cases : the whole illustrated with fifty-two copper plates : to which is annexed, the builder's dictionary ... / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
12, 132, [28] p., [52] leaves of plates (some fold.) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. The art of sound building, demonstrated in geometrical problems : shewing geometrical lines for all kinds of arches, niches, groins, and twisted rails, both regular and irregular : with several other draughts of buildings and staircases : all curiously engraven on copper plates : wherein are laid down (suited to every Capacity) easy practical methods for carpenters, joiners, masons, or bricklayers, to work by / by William Halfpenny, architect and carpenter.

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Creator:
Halfpenny, William, d. 1755
Date:
MDCCXXV [1725]
Physical Description:
[12], 56, [2] p., 19, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen ; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve.

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Creator:
Neve, Richard
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
[3], vi-xvi, [376] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Second letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of ****** : concerning the qualifications and duty of a surveyor : in which the essential accomplishments are more particularly described and considered : with some farther remarks on their supposed imperfections ...

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
[2], 33, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. The gentleman's and builder's director, or, A key that openth to your sight at once, brick work ... / by Edward Roman.

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Creator:
Roman, Edward
Date:
1734
Physical Description:
15 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. The city and countrey [sic] purchaser, and builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builder's guide ... / by T.N., philomath.

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Creator:
Neve, Richard
Date:
1703
Physical Description:
[32], 288 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. Every man a compleat builder, or, Easy rules and proportions for drawing and working the several parts of architecture ... / the whole nearly engraved on 51 copper plates ; compiled by the late Edward Oakley ... ; to which is annexed, a plan, elevation, and section of the carpenter's work, erected to support the center-arch of Black-Fryers-Bridge.

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Creator:
Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
32 p., [52] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's assistant : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers ... : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building ... : with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1748
Physical Description:
[2], ii, [8], 187 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. The British carpenter, or, a treatise on carpentry : containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art ... / by Francis Price.

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Creator:
Price, Francis, d. 1753
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
[8], 72 p., [64] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat [sic] and universal estimator : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c., intersperd 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 ... / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1760
Physical Description:
[2], ii, 187, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The builder's compleat assistant, or, a Library of arts and sciences absolutely necessary to be understood by builders and workmen in general ... : the whole exemplified by 77 large quarto copper-plates / by B. Langley.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1738
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery ... : the whole founded on true geometrical principles : ... and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author : including some observations and calculation on the strength of timber / by Peter Nicholson.

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Creator:
Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
xii, 76 p., [78] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. The country builder's estimator, or, The architect's companion for estimating of new buildings ... : to which is added several new tables ... / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[12], 131 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : table ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. The rudiments of architecture, or, The young workman's instructor ... : with twenty-four elegant designs of buildings, the most of which have been actually executed in north Britain : to which is added, The builder's dictionary: intended for those whose time will not allow them to attend teachers.

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Date:
1799
Physical Description:
[8], 127, [1], 2, [16] p., [49] leaves of plates in various pagings (some folded) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

20. The builder's guide and gentleman and trader's assistant, or, A universal magazine of tables : wherein is contained greater variety than in any other book of its kind, with several new and useful tables, never before published ... / by William Salmon, junior, carpenter, of Colchester.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1736
Physical Description:
xvi, 155, [7] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

21. The carpenters companion : being an accurate and compleat treatise of carpenters works : in which is contained various sorts of timber-floors, partitions, bridges ... : to which is added, the five orders of architecture, in a more easy and concise method than any yet published ... / by James Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:
1733
Physical Description:
[1], x, 11-31 p., [41] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

22. The principles of ancient masonry, or, A general system of building compleated : wherein the theory and practice of architecture are universally demonstrated : comprising all the arts and sciences necessary to be understood for the attaining a just knowledge of building, in a more concise and easy manner than has been yet attempted to be made public, viz : arithmetick, vulgar and decimal : practical geometry : plain trigonometry : mensuration in general : surveying of land, &c. : architecture universally apply'd : perspective : mechanicks : dialing : painting and staining glass : interspersed with proper introductions, remarks, and observations : in which great care is taken to omit everything that is superfluous, and insert nothing but what is really useful : the whole illustrated with one hundred and fifty large folio copper plates, engraven by the best hands : exemplifying the several arts and proportions of the five order of columns, in a very great variety of useful designs of plans, elevations, and sections of building in general : by a society of the most experienced practitioners and workmen in building, and the several branches of learning relating thereto.

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Creator:
Langley, Batty, 1696–1751
Date:
1733
Physical Description:
[2], 434, xi, [23] pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

23. A practical essay on a cement and artificial stone : justly supposed to be that of the Greeks and Romans / lately rediscovered by Monsieur Loriot ... ; for the cheap, easy, expeditious and durable construction of all manner of buildings ; and the formation of all kinds of ornaments of architecture, even with the commonest and coarsest materials ; translated from the French ...

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Creator:
Loriot, Antoine-Joseph, 1716–1782
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
48 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

24. The modern, complete measurer, adapted to timber and building, agreeable to the Irish standard ... By P. Levi Hodgson and son, measurers ...

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Creator:
Hodgson, Ph. Levi
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
116 p. incl. tables. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

25. A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.

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Creator:
Skaife, Thomas
Date:
1776
Physical Description:
iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

26. A key to civil architecture; or, The universal British builder ... To which is added, a treatise of arithmetick ... By Thomas Skaife ...

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Creator:
Skaife, Thomas
Date:
1774
Physical Description:
iv, [5]-296 p., 8 leaves. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

27. 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 compleat index to the whole / by William Salmons.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1755
Physical Description:
[1], ii, [8], 187, [1] p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

28. The gentleman and tradesman's compleat assistant; or, The whole art of measuring and estimating, made easy ... By J. Leadbeater, and assistants.

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Creator:
Leadbeater, J
Date:
1768
Physical Description:
xii, 240 p. front. fold. plate. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

29. The qualifications and duty of a surveyor explained in a letter to the right honourable the Earl of ****** : in which the essential accomplishements are particularly descrived and considered : necessary to be perused by all persons concerned in building.

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Creator:
Morris, Robert, 1701–1754
Date:
1752
Physical Description:
28 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

30. The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's assistant : comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers ... : interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations ... : with a compleat index to the whole / by William Salmon.

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Creator:
Salmon, William, approximately 1703–1779
Date:
1745
Physical Description:
ii, [8], 187 p. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

31. The city and country purchaser, and Builder's dictionary, or, The compleat builders guide ... / by Richard Neve.

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Creator:
Neve, Richard
Date:
1726
Physical Description:
[12], xx, [288] p. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

32. The builder's sketch book, or, The youth's pocket companion : containing a great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only.

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Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
[42], 52 p., 48 plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts