The directory for patent-slating
Subtitle: circulated to instruct noblemen, gentlemen, builders and other artificers, in the use of the new-invented method of covering the roofs of churches, houses or any other buildings, with slates, so as to prevent their being rifled by winds, damaged by frost, snow, or hail ; or penetrated by the strongest driving rains ; and so as greatly to reduce the weight of materials used, and consequently the degree of expence incurred, in framing roofs and covering buildings after the common mode ; illustrated with five copper-plates, on which are engraved the designs of several roofs in different forms, tending to render intelligible to every capacity the various methods to be used in this kind of slating
By: by the Patentee, Charles Rawlinson, of Lostwithiel ...
Contributors: John Hand (Print seller)
Publisher: Printed for, and sold by the Patentee, at Lostwithiel, aforesaid; Sold also by his agent John Hand ..., print-seller, and by the Booksellers in town and country
Published: 1772
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Slate; Early works to 1800; Slate roofing; Roofing
Notes: Pp. 3* - 10* are unsigned and additional to the gatherings.

C & C, 6519

English short title catalogue (ESTC), t122840