Main entry:

Robson, Robert.

Title & Author:

The mason's, bricklayer's, plasterer's, and decorator's practical guide : containing a complete elucidation of those arts as practised at the present time : with suggestions and improvements in constructive and ornamental masonry : with examples of foundations, domes, lighthouses, bridges, walls, vaulting, arches, doorways, windows, etc. etc. : also a series of practical designs for cemetery monuments, tomb & head-stones, wall-tablets, &c. / edited by Robert Robson ; assisted by eminent architects & builders.

Publication:

London : James Hagger, [1859-62]

Description:

iv, [1], 266 pages, 92 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Imprint date from British Museum Catalogue.
Issued in parts.
Engraved t.p., within architectural border.
Many plates numbered in the fashion 9, 9a, 9b, etc.; some plates misnumbered.
Illustrations by D. Brand, John Richard Jobbins, H. Weiss; after Robert Robson, S.H. Brooks, S. Brookes, Daniel Ruddle, J. Gascoyne, A.M.Q., E.L. (Edward Lushington) Blackburne, W.H., E.L., Tarbuck and G.E. Fox.
Title within architectural border.
Title on spine: Practical masonry &c.

Subject:

Building Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Construction Guides, manuels, etc.
Building.
Masonry

Form/genre:

Handbooks and manuals.
Engravings [1859-1862].
Lithographs [1859-1862].
Lithographs Hand-colored [1859-1862]. CtY-BA

Added entries:

Brand, D., engraver.
Jobbins, John Richard, -1866, engraver.
Weiss, H., engraver.
Robson, Robert, engraver.
Brooks, S. H., engraver.
Brookes, S., engraver.
Ruddle, Daniel, engraver.
Gascoyne, J., engraver.
A. M. Q., engraver.
Blackburne, E. L., engraver.
W. H., engraver.
E. L., eng.
Tarbuck, engraver.
Fox, G. E., engraver.
Robson, Robert

Holdings:

Location: Library main 25599
Call No.: W2850; ID:88-B11730
Status: Available