The builder's dictionary: or, gentleman and architect's companion. Explaining not only the terms of art … but also containing the theory and practice of the various branches thereof, requisite to be known by masons, carpenters, joiners, bricklayers, plaisterers, painters, glazers, smiths, turners, carvers, statuaries, plumbers, &c

London: A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch, and S. Austin, 1734. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [10], [484]; [4], [506]; lexicon in double column, engraved frontispiece and 34 engraved plates (on 33 sheets), and "illustrated with more than 200" woodcut illustrations, diagrams, and tables in the text, several full-page, and including the approbation leaf in volume II, 2 supplements, adverts, and errata; full contemporary calf rebacked, red morocco labels on spines; generally very good and sound. Includes also sections on geometry and arithmetic, leveling and hydraulics, mechanics, design, perspective, decoration. "Essentially a plunder of Neve's work (Richard Neve, The city and countrey purchaser, or the compleat builder's guide, London, 1703). The preface was been attributed to James Ralph. Includes a translation of Henri Gautier's Traite des ponts, published at Paris, 1727-28 - first published at Paris in 1716. Based on Richard Neve and Ephriam Chambers' Cyclopaedia, first published in 1728; with plates taken from William Robertson's Proportional architecture (London, 1736" (Alston). Alston XVIII, 353. Item #64380

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