The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal estimator
Subtitle: comprehending the London and country prices of the different works of bricklayers, masons, carpenters ... &c. interspersed with such useful and necessary rules and observations as are of the greatest consequence in estimating of any building : with a great variety of new and useful tables ... viz. I. A table for the reducing of brickwork of any thickness ... tto the statute thickness of a brick and a half. II. A table which shews how many bricks are sufficient to build any piece of brick-work ... III. A table of tiling, whereby it is shewn how many tiles will cover any roof. IV Vareity of tables, which shews the proper scantling to cut timber for any building, and for valuaing the same ... V. A table of pavements shewing how many bricks ... will pave any floor. VI. ... tables, for shewing the value of ... nails, bolts, hinges, &c. VII. A table of solid measure ... VIII. A table of flat measure ... with a compleat index to the whole
By: by William Salmon
Edition: 4th ed., rev. and corr.
Series: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature -- no. 9566.6; Making of the modern world
Publisher: Printed for S. Crowder
Published: 1760
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Building; Estimates; Early works to 1800; Handbooks, manuals; Building materials; Prices
Other titles: Compleat and universal estimator.; Compleat estimator.; Compleat and universal estimator; Compleat estimator
Notes: Engr. front., head-pieces, end-pieces.

Printers list at end.

"Architectural Books Available in America before the Revolution." New Haven: Research Publications, Inc., 1972.

First published in 1745 under title: The London and country builder's vade mecum, or, The compleat and universal architect's estimator.

Caption title: The compleat estimator.

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Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 09566.6.

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