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
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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
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.
Features
Bindings
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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