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 in the various departments... : 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 practice of the five orders, as employed in practical architecture
By: by Peter Nicholson
Publisher: Thomas Kelly
Published: 1823
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: Building; Estimates; Architecture; Handbooks, manuals; Domestic Architecture; Designs and plans
Other titles: Practical builder's perpetual price-book
Notes: Added t.p. with architectural border encompassing the word: Architectonick.

The frontispiece and some of the other engravings are dated 1825.

Includes index.

Glossary.

Illustrated "with numerous plates, from original drawings and designs made expressly for this work, by Michael Angelo Nicholson, R. Elsam, W. Inwood, and other eminent architectural artists."

Includes The Practical builder's perpetual price-book: with half-title, separate paging, five plates (two folded). Includes excerpts from Building, Paving and other acts, codes and duties; list of district surveyers for London and surrounding counties, 1825? Cf. NUC.