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Bob the builder: can he click it?

By Osborne, H..
2001

Let the builder beware? A guide to appointments and collateral warranties on construction projects.

By Brown, Nigel.
Oxford Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited 1998 .
xiv,99p. ; 28cm. 1902375033

Nuisance and the builder

By Tolson, S..
1997

The builder`s response

By Coates, D..
1996

When the builder must start to count the costs

By Harding, C.
1992

Germany : a challenge awaits the builder

By Hardy, T.M..
1991

Using package deals and involving the builder

1990

Building

London CMP 1966

Specifications for building works and how to write them

By Farrow, Frederick Richard.
London Fourdrinier | Whittaker and Co 1898

The Builder`s Practical Director for buildings of all classes

London J Hagger 1897

Laxton's builder's price book for 1869 containing above 70,000 prices, carefully corrected and revised according to the present prices of materials and labour, together with many new, useful, and important memoranda; and prices and descriptions of new materials and inventions suited to the builder, contractor and engineer, and all trades connected therewith

By Laxton, W..
London | Simpkin, Marshall and Co. Morgan & Chase 1869 .
28, xxxv, 245, 52, 113 p. 17 cm..

Laxton's builder's price book for 1868 containing above 60,000 prices, carefully corrected according to the present prices of materials and labour, together with many new, useful, and important memoranda; and prices and descriptions of new materials and inventions suited to the builder, contractor and engineer, and all trades connected therewith

By Laxton, W..
London Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1868 .
xviii, 239, 52, cviii p. 17 cm..

Laxton's builder's price book for 1866 containing upwards of 50,000 prices, carefully corrected according to the present prices of materials and labour, together with many useful and important memoranda; and prices and descriptions of new materials and inventions suited to the builder, contractor and engineer

By Laxton, W..
London Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1866 .
x, 203, 52, lxxxiv p. 17 cm..

The builder's and contractor's price-book for 1861 containing the latest prices for work in all branches of the building trade, with the items numbered for easy reference, and an appendix of tables, notes and memoranda, arranged to afford detailed information commonly required in preparing estimates, etc.

London Lockwood & Co. 1861 .
xii, 286 p. 19 cm..

The builder's price book for 1856 containing upwards of 8,000 prices, carefully corrected from the present price of materials and labour, and 3,000 useful and important memoranda; together with tables for purchasing leases, estates and annuities, areas and circumferences of circles, scantlings of timber, weights of iron, timber &c.

By Laxton, Henry.
London J. Knott 1845 .
xi, 160, 46, [52], 24 p. 17 cm..

The builder's price book for 1848 containing upwards of 8,000 prices, carefully corrected from the present price of materials and labour, and 3,000 useful and important memoranda; together with extracts from the paving, and other acts, tables for purchasing leases, estates and annuities, areas and circumferences of circles, scantlings of timber, weights of iron, &c.

By Laxton, W..
London The author 1848 .
155, vi, 82 p. 18 cm..

The Builder's price book for 1846 containing upwards of 8,000 prices, carefully corrected from the present price of materials and labour, and 3,000 useful and important memoranda; together with extracts from the paving, and other acts, tables for purchasing leases, estates and annuities, areas and circumferences of circles, scantlings of timber, weights of iron, &c.

By Laxton, W..
London The author 1846 .
155, vi, 80 p. 17 cm..

The builder's price book for 1845 containing upwards of 8,000 prices, carefully corrected from the present price of materials and labour, and 3,000 useful and important memoranda; together with extracts from the paving, and other acts, tables for purchasing leases, estates and annuities, areas and circumferences of circles, scantlings of timber, weights of iron, &c.

By Laxton, W..
London The author 1845 .
155, vi, 80 p. 17 cm..

The Builder

London Builder 1842

The builder's sketch book or, the youth's pocket companion; containing great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture. The whole adapted to practice, for the benefit of youth, at their first beginning to draw in architecture. Printed on 48 octvavo copper plates, with full explanations in letter press, to face each plate. To which is added, a list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only. By William Pain

By Pain, William.
London printed for, and sold by the author 1794 .
[42]; [2], 52 p., 48 plates sm. 4o.

The builder's magazine or, a universal dictionary for architects, carpenters, masons, bricklayers, &c. ... Consisting of designs in architecture, ... together with the plans and sections, ... The whole forming a complete system of architecture, ... By a Society of Architects

By Carter, John.
London printed for F. Newbery; and sold by all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland 1779 .
[4], 345, [1], 8; 100 p., CLXXXV plates 4o.

The builder's price-book containing a correct list of the prices allowed by the most eminent surveyors in London, to the several artificers concerned in building. Collected by an experienced surveyor.

By Experienced Surveyor.
London printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown near Chancery-Lane, Holborn 1776 .
[4], 120, [6] p. 12o.

The builder's pocket-treasure; or, Palladio delineated and explained, in such a manner as to render that most excellent author plain and intelligible to the meanest capacity in which not only the theory, but the practical part of architecture has been carefully attended to. Illustrated with new and useful designs of frontispieces, chimney-pieces, &c. with their bases, capitals, and entablatures, at large for practice; architrave frontispieces, cornices, and mouldings for the inside of rooms, &c. the construction of stairs, with their ramp and twist rails; framing of floors, roofs, and partitions; with the method of finding the lengths and backing of hips streight or curvi-linear; the tracing of groins, angle-brackets, splay'd or circular soffits; with plans and elevations of a dwelling house, hot-house, garden temple, seat and bridge; and a table of scantlings for cutting timber for building. The whole neatly and correctly engraved on forty-four copper plates, with printed explanations to face each plate. By William Pain. Engraved by Isaac Taylor. A new edition, with an appendix of eleven copper plates, with explanations.

By Pain, William.
London printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street 1771 .
iv, [1], 1, 3-4, 6-7, 10-11, 14-15, 21-22, 25-26, 32-35, 47-48, 52-53, 56-57, 61-63, [1], [69]-70, 73-76, 78-79, 81-82, 85-[86], 89-90 p., 55 plates (27 fold.) 8o.

The British architect or, the builder's treasury of stair-cases. Containing, I. An easier, more intelligible, and expeditious Method of drawing the Five Orders, than has hitherto been published, by a Scale of Twelve equal Parts, free from those troublesome Divisions call'd Aliquot Parts. Shewing also how to giue up their Columns and Capitals. II. Likewise Stair-Cases, (those most useful, ornamental, and necessary Parts of a Building, though never before sufficiently described in any Book, Ancient or Modern); shewing their most convenient Situation, and the Form of their Ascending in the most grand Manner: With a great Variety of curious Ornaments, whereby any Gentleman may fix on what will suit him best, there being Examples of all Kinds; and necessary Directions for such Persons as are unacquainted with that Branch. III. Designs of Arches, Doors, and Windows. IV. A great Variety of New and Curious Chimney-Pieces, in the most elegant and modern Taste. V. Corbels, Shields, and other beautiful Decorations. VI. Several useful and necessary Rules of Carpentry; with the Manner of Truss'd Roofs, and the Nature of a splay'd circular Soffit, both in a streight and circular Wall, never published before. Together with Raking Cornices, Groins, and Angle Brackets, described. The Whole being illustrated with upwards of One Hundred Designs and Examples, curiously engraved by the best Hands on Sixty Folio Copper-Plates. By Abraham Swan, Architect

By Swan, Abraham.
London printed for and sold by the author, near the George in Portland Street, Cavendish Square; by Mr. Meadows, over-against the Royal-Exchange; Messrs Hitch and Hawes, in Pater-Noster Row; and H. Piers and Partner at the Bible and Crown, in High Holborn 1758 .
viii, 16, [10] p., plates 2o.

The builder's jewel or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining Short and Easy Rules, Made familiar to the meanest Capacity, For Drawing and Working, I. The Five Orders of Columns entire; or any Part of an Order, without Regard to the Module or Diameter. And to enrich them With their Rusticks, Fluting, Saburg, Dentules, Modillions, &c. Also to proportion Their Doors, Windows, Intercolumnations, Portico's, and Arcades. Together with Fourteen Varieties of Raking, Circular, Scrolled, Compound, and Contracted Pediments; and the true Formation and Accadering of their Raking and Returned Cornices; and Mouldings for Capping their Dentules and Modillions. II. Block and Cantaliver Cornices, Rustick Quoins, Cornices proportioned to Rooms, Angle Brackets, Mouldings for Tabernacle Frames, Pannelling, and Centering for Groins, Trussed Partitions, Girders, Roofs and Domes. With a Section of the Dome of St. Paul's, London. The Whole illustrated by upwards of 200 Examples, engraved on 100 Copper-Plates. By B. and T. Langley

By Langley, Batty.
London printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill 1757 .
34, [2] p., plates 16o.

The builder's dictionary or, Gentleman and Architect's companion. Explaining not only the terms of art in all the several parts of architecture, but also containing the theory and practice Of the Various Branches thereof, requisite to be known by Masons, Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers, Plaisterers, Painters, Glaziers, Smiths, Turners, Carvers, Statuaries, Plumbers, &c. Also Necessary Problems in Arithmetic, Geometry, Mechanics, Perspective, Hydraulics, and other Mathematical Sciences. Together with The Quantities, Proportions, and Prices of all Kinds of Materials used in Building; with Directions for Chusing, Preparing, and Using them: The several Proportions of the Five Orders of Architecture, and all their Members, according to Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi, Vignola, M. Le Clerc, &c. With Rules for the Valuation of Houses, and the Expence calculated of Erecting any Fabrick, Great or Small. The Whole Illustrated with more than Two Hundred Figures, many of them curiously Engraven on Copper-Plates: Being a Work of great Use, not only to Artificers, but likewise to Gentlemen, and others, concerned in building, &c. Faithfully digested from the most Approved Writers on these Subjects. In two volumes.

London printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red-Lion in Pater-Noster-Row; and S. Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1734 .
2v., plates 8o.