The gentleman and tradesman's compleat assistant
Subtitle: or, The whole art of measuring and estimating made easy. In three parts ... Illustrated with copper-plates. The whole made perfectly easy and intelligible to the meanest capacity
By: By J. Leadbeater and assistants
Contributors: Webley, Henry; Todd, W., 18th cent
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed by Samuel Chandler for H. Webley, bookseller, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane; and W. Todd, accomptant, in Adam and Eve Court, opposite Poland-Street, Oxford-Road
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Building; Early works to 1800; Estimates
Other titles: Whole art of measuring and estimating made easy
Notes: Reissue of the 1768 first ed. with new t.p. See ESTC.

Part I. Contains, the names and exact prices of all artificers work in general, relating to building, viz. such as bricklayers, carpenters, joiners, carvers, plaisterers, painters, masons, plumbers, glaziers, slaters, paviours, smiths, &c.  Part II. Contains, the method of squaring dimensions, or measuring the said artificers works at large, thro' all their various branches, both by cross-multiplication and inspectionary tables, to the extent of an hundred feet square, including tables, which shew the number of squares, square yards, and also the square root of any number of feet, &c. whatsoever required.  Part III. Contains, geometrical definitions of lines, angles, &c. with the most useful and necessary problems, or the rudiments of practical geometry, measuration of superficies, &c.

Signatures: a⁴ b² A-2H⁴.

Subscribers, p. 6-10 of preliminaries.

Errata, p. xii.

ESTC T110334

Binding: sprinkled sheepskin. Title in gilt on red spine label. Edges of boards gilt rolled. Page edges sprinkled red.

Printed label of Kenney Collection.