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The builder and workman's new director : comprehending definitions and descriptions of the component parts of buildings, the principles of construction and geometrical development of the principal difficulties that usually occur in the different branches of mechanical professions, employed in the formation of edifices

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection A178

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Type of record: Book

Title: The builder and workman's new director : comprehending definitions and descriptions of the component parts of buildings, the principles of construction and geometrical development of the principal difficulties that usually occur in the different branches of mechanical professions, employed in the formation of edifices

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection A178

Creator(s): Nicholson, Peter (1765-1844)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)

Publisher: Printed by James Compton, 23 Middle Street, Cloth Fair, published by John Day, Mark King, James Pringle, Henry Joll, Edward Sanders, Robert Johnson, William Foster, John Wright, and Thomas Prosser

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1824

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 v (various pagings)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729028

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019853792905181

Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Frontipiece portrait of Peter Nicholson engraved by C Armstong from a portrait by T Heaphy.

Memoir of Mr Peter Nicholson i-viii follows contents, and contains appendix Elements of geometry.

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A178: contemporary mottled calf, gold tooled on cover and spine, orange marbled endpapers.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A178: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: Hc/15.

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