builder's guide, or the carpenter's plain and exact rule, shewing, how to measure carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plaisterers, masons, glaziers, and painters work; also how to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen, with Gunter's-line, and Coggeshall's description of the sliding-rule. Ans an explanation of the technical terms, to which is added, two plates, viz. one of a Chinese temple, the other a plan of a fine Chinese garden chair, in curious diamond paleing and lattice work.
By: By Francis Price.
Contributors: Hoey, James, the elder, fl. 1725-1775, printer.
Publisher: Printed by James Hoey, at the Mercury in Skinner-Row
Published: 1759
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Other titles: The carpenter's plain and exact rule.
Notes: Signatures: A-M\6.

TCD notes: Text slightly adapted for Ireland and edition dated from internal evidence of Hoey's advertisements.

Illustrations: unsigned woodcuts.

Originally entitled 'The carpenter's plain and exact rule'.