A hand-book for mapping, engineering, and architectural drawing
Subtitle: in which maps of all descriptions are analyzed, and their several uses fully explained. Intended for the use of civil engineers, architects, and surveyors ... Illustrated with forty-three large plates and thirty-nine woodcuts ...
By: by B.P. Wilme
Contributors: Gardner, James, engraver; Martin, Henry, engraver; Weale, John, 1791-1862, publisher; George Woodfall and Son
Publisher: Published for the author, by John Weale
Published: 1846
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Engineering drawings; Mechanical drawing; Cartography; Architectural drawing
Other titles: Hand book for plain and ornamental mapping, and engineering drawing; Wilme's hand book for mapping engineering & architectural drawing
Notes: Additional, engraved, title-page has subtitle: Consisting of every style of embellishment and writing used by surveyors and civil & mechanical engineers ... / by Benjamin P. Wilme.

"With plain instructions for lithographing and zincographing maps and drawings, and an exposition of the relative cost and merits of engraving, lithographing, and zincographing."

Hand-colored folding frontispiece and 42 plates (some folding) of which 24 are hand-colored.

Printed by G. Woodfall and Son, Printers, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London, according to the Beinecke Library.

Illustrations by J. Gardner and Henry Martin; after B.P. Wilme, according to the Beinecke Library.

Includes index.

Avery Classics copy: Two leaves with alphabets, one dated 1843 and one 1844, zincographed or on zinc by B. P. Wilme, laid in.