The new practical builder, and workman's companion
Subtitle: containing a full display and elucidation of the most recent and skilful methods, pursued by architects and artificers ... including, also, new treatises on geometry, theoretical and practical, trigonometry, conic sections, perspective, shadows, and elevations; a summary of the art of building; copious accounts of building materials, strength of timber, cements, &c.; a description of the tools used by the different workmen; an extensive glossary of the technical terms peculiar to each department; and the theory and practise of the five orders ...  The whole illustrated and embellished with numerous plates, from original drawings and designs, made expressly for this work
By: by the author, and correctly engr., under his immediate inspection, by Mr. W. Symns, and other eminent artists.
Publisher: T. Kelly
Published: 1823
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Building; Architecture
Notes: Title page bound in v. 2.

Includes bibliographical references.

Vol. 1, p. 61-64 wanting, supplied in facsimile; v. 2, fold. plan mutilated.
Table of contents: title: v. 1.  Text.-   v. 2.  Plates.