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 ..., a summary of the art of building ..., an extensive glossary of the technical terms ..., and The theory and practice of the five orders, as employed in decorative architecture
By: by Peter Nicholson, architect, and others ; the work is illustrated and embellished with numerous plates ... by the author and his son Michael Angelo Nicholson, and correctly engraved ... by Mr. W. Symns, and other eminent architectural artists.
Publisher: Thomas Kelly
Published: 1825
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: Building.; Building materials.; Architecture.; Architecture -- Orders.
Other titles: Nicholson's new practical builder, and workman's companion; Nicholson's practical builder
Notes: LC copy acquired by the Library of Congress Mar. 23, 1983. Withdrawn from Oberlin College Library.
The frontispiece and some of the other engravings are dated 1825.
"Arrangement and description of the plates"--p. 563-578.
"Glossary of technical terms and general index"--p. 579-596.