The Builder's dictionary: or, Gentleman and architect's companion
Subtitle: Explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof, requisite to be known by masons, carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, glaziers, smiths, turners, carvers, statuaries, plumbers, &c. : Also necessary problems in arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, perspective, hydraulics, and other mathematical sciences. : Together with the quantities, proportions, and prices of all kinds of materials used in building ; with directions for chusing, preparing, and using them: the several proportions of the five orders of architecture, and all their members, according to Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, Vignola, M. Le Clerc, &c. : With rules for the valuation of houses, and the expence calculated of erecting and fabrick, great or small. : The whole illustrated with more than two hundred figures, many of them curiously engraven on copper-plates : Being a work of great use, not only to artificers, but likewise to gentlemen, and others, concerned in building, &c
By: Faithfully digested from the most approved writers on these subjects. ; In two volumes
Contributors: Devoto, John, active 1719-1752, illustrator; Toms, W. H. (William Henry), approximately 1700-1765, engraver; A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch (Firm)
Publisher: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-noster Row
Published: 1734
Place of publication: London; And S. Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St.-Paul's Church-Yard
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Architecture; Dictionaries
Other titles: Builder's dictionary: or, Architect's companion.
Notes: "January 11, 1733/4. We have perused these two volumes of the Builder's dictionary, and do think they contain a great deal of useful knowledge in the building business. Nicholas Hawksmoor, John James, James Gibbs."--Verso of title page, v. 1.

Vol. 2 has title: The Builder's dictionary: or, Architect's companion. ... containing the theory and practice of the various branches of that useful and noble art requisite to be known by masons ... Being a work of great use, not only to artificers, but likewise to gentlemen, and others, concerned in building, &c. Vol. II.

Frontispiece in v. 1 signed: I. Devoto inv. Toms sculpt.

Vol. 1: [494] p., XV, [1] leaves of plates (some folded); v. 2: [508] p., XVI-XXXIII, [1] folded leaves of plates.

Signatures: v. 1, pi1 a⁴ B-2H⁸ 2I²; v. 2, pi2 A-2G⁸ 2H⁸( -2H8) 2I⁴ chi1 (chi1 verso blank).

"Directions to the binders, for placing the plates."--V. 1, p. [10]. "Mistakes in directions for placing the cuts, which the binder must correct."--v. 2, p. [507]. Accordingly plate XXIII is correctly included in v. 1. An additional plate, marked *, is included in v. 2.

"Errata."--V. 2, p. [507].

Booksellers' advertisements, v. 1, p. [493-494], and v. 2, p. [506].

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