The London prices of bricklayers materials and works, both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained: and the common exactions and abuses therein detected [electronic resource] : Interspersed with rules for estimating, performing and measuring all kinds of plain, circular, elliptical, gothick, spherical, spheroidical, conical and pyramidical brick-works: wherein the abutments of all sorts of arches, and the manner of building brick-flooring for the prevention of fire, is clearly explained. The whole arithmetically and geometrically demonstrated. Also illustrated with a great variety of designs for plain and rusticated piers, for gates, piazzas, &c. in thirty-two curious copper plates. Written for the use of gentlemen, stewards, and workmen in general, and particularly for such landlords and tenants who are subject to the repairs of buildings. By Batty Langley, architect.
1750
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The London prices of bricklayers materials and works, both of new buildings and repairs, justly ascertained: and the common exactions and abuses therein detected [electronic resource] : Interspersed with rules for estimating, performing and measuring all kinds of plain, circular, elliptical, gothick, spherical, spheroidical, conical and pyramidical brick-works: wherein the abutments of all sorts of arches, and the manner of building brick-flooring for the prevention of fire, is clearly explained. The whole arithmetically and geometrically demonstrated. Also illustrated with a great variety of designs for plain and rusticated piers, for gates, piazzas, &c. in thirty-two curious copper plates. Written for the use of gentlemen, stewards, and workmen in general, and particularly for such landlords and tenants who are subject to the repairs of buildings. By Batty Langley, architect.
Edition
The second edition.
Created/published
London : Printed for Richard Adams, at Dryden's Head, Holborn Bars; and John Wren, at the Bible and Crown, Great Turn-stile, Holborn, 1750.
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[2],xvii,[1],389,[1]p.,32plates : ill.,tables ; (8vo)
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Price in square brackets: (Price bound Six Shillings.)
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Price in square brackets: (Price bound Six Shillings.)
Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
Cited/described in
Hanson, L. Contemporary printed sources for British and Irish economic history, 1701-1750, 6052n
Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 8501
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T149354
Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 8501
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T149354
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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