The city and country purchaser's and builder's dictionary, or, The complete builder's guide : containing an explanation of all the terms of art used by workmen; as also what is necessary to be known in the art of building ... / originally written and compiled by Richard Neve ...

Main entry:

Neve, Richard.

Title & Author:

Edition:

Third edition, corrected and improved throughout.

Publication:

London : Printed for B. Sprint, D. Browne, J. Osborn, S. Birt, H. Linton, and A. Wilde, M. DCC. XXXVI [1736]

Description:

[3], vi-xvi, [376] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Notes:
ESTC T071408
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 1556-1785. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994,c1990. 597
Library copy: inscriptions of L.I. Watts, Colchester and H. Lason?

Subject:

Building Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Building Early works to 1800.
Architecture Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Construction Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture Dictionaries.
Building.
Building Dictionaries.
Construction.
Architecture (object genre)

Form/genre:

Technical dictionaries.
Early works.

Added entries:

Provenance. Watts, L. I. Inscription.
Autographs. Watts, L. I.

Complete builder's guide

Holdings:

Location: Library main 180550
Call No.: ID TH9.N4; ID:98-B932
Status: Available

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