The manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire, or, A treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches, and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof
Subtitle: with the addition of some letters that have passed between the Count of Espie and Peter Wyche Esq. on this subject : adorned with two copper-plates serving to illustrate the whole work
By: written in French by Monsieur le comte d'Espie ... ; and translated by L. Dutens
Contributors: Dutens, L. (Louis), 1730-1812; Wyche, Peter; Piers, H.; Payne, Thomas (Bookseller in Paternoster Row); Cooper, M.
Publisher: Printed for and sold by H. Piers and partner ..., and to be had of T. Payne ..., and M. Cooper ...
Published: 1756
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Roofing; Early works to 1800; Fireproof Building; Arches
Other titles: Manner of securing all sorts of buildings from fire; Treatise upon the construction of arches made with bricks and plaister, called flat-arches and of a roof without timber called a bricked-roof
Work titles: Maniere de rendre toutes sortes d'édifices incombustibles
Notes: Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁸(-D8).

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Getty copy has advertisements (8 p.) bound in at end, with running title "Books printed and sold by Henry Webley" and dated November 20, 1765.

Bound in mottled calf; remnants of guilt tooling on spine and boards; edges sprinkled red; signatures of James Stanely and Malmsley (?) Stanley, dated 1827, on front free endpaper.