The builder's golden rule, or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, with the most ready practical methods of executing the same, from the plan to the ornamental finish, in the most prevailing modern taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 104 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press. To which is added, an estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with reference to the respective designs
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Type of record: Book
Title: The builder's golden rule, or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, with the most ready practical methods of executing the same, from the plan to the ornamental finish, in the most prevailing modern taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 104 copper-plates, with a full explanation in letter-press. To which is added, an estimate of prices for materials and labour, and labour only, with reference to the respective designs
Classmark: Bedford Collection A052
Publisher: printed for the author, by H. D. Steel, Number 51, Lothbury, near Coleman-Street
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1781
Language: English
Size and medium: [2],iii,[3],18;58p., 104 plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721802
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019766749705181
Description
An estimate of prices for materials has separate pagination and register.
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A052: loose excerpt from sale catalogue referring to this item.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A052: contemporary calf, gold tooled, re-backed [in 19th century?].
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A052: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former shelfmark/reference: Ao/24. MS. inscription on front pastedown: J H Wharton at Piper & Sons - Builders - Bishopsgate St Without City 1853 [i.e. Thomas Piper & Sons].
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