A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder
Subtitle: containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated ... : also a strict enquiry into the present manner of building and mode of finishing, and how far the taste is consistent with symmetry and sound reason : likewise a new criterion, or universal estimator ... : to which is added, a treatise of arithmetick ...
By: by Thomas Skaife, P.A.
Contributors: Baldwin, R. (Robert), 1737-1810
Edition: The second edition, corrected, with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases.
Publisher: Printed for R. Baldwin, no. 47, Pater-noster Row
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Building; Handbooks, manuals; Early works to 1800; Estimates; Construction industry; Building materials; Prices; Arithmetic; Textbooks
Other titles: Universal British builder
Notes: Signatures: pi² a⁴ B-2B⁸ 2C². Last p. blank.

Includes index.

ESTC T130130