The builder's guide, or The carpenter's plain and exact rule : Shewing, how to measure carpenters, joiners, sawyers, bricklayers, plaisterers, masons, glaziers, and painters work; also how to undertake each work, and at what price; the rates of each commodity, and the common wages of journeymen, with gunter's-line, and goggeshall's description of the sliding-rule. And an explanation of the technical terms, to which is added, two plates, viz. one of a Chinese temple, the other a plan of a fine Chinese garden chair, in curious diamond paleing and lattice work. By Francis Price.

Author/creator Price, Francis
Format Electronic
Publication InfoDublin : Printed by James Hoey, at the Mercury in Skinner-Row, [1750?]
Description12 unnumbered pages, 130 pages, plates ; 12⁰.
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Uniform titleCarpenter's plain and exact rule
General noteOriginally entitled 'The carpenter's plain and exact rule'.
General noteReproduction of original from National Library of Ireland.
References English Short Title Catalog, T167211.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Genre/formManuals (Handbooks)

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