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1. The builder's pocket manual, or, Rules and instructions in the art of carpentry, joinery, masonry, & bricklaying : with practical hints and observations for the use of the workman ... / by G.A. Smeaton.

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Creator:: Smeaton, G. A
Date:: 1825
Physical Description:: [1], xxxii, 258 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The mason's, bricklayer's, plasterer's, and decorator's practical guide : containing a complete elucidation of those arts as practised at the present time : with suggestions and improvements in constructive and ornamental masonry : with examples of foundations, domes, lighthouses, bridges, walls, vaulting, arches, doorways, windows, etc. etc.; : also a series of practical designs for cemetery monuments, tomb & head-stones, wall-tablets, &c. / edited by Robert Robson ; assisted by eminent architects & builders

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Creator:: Robson, Robert
Date:: [1859-62]
Physical Description:: iv, [1], 266 p., [92] leaves of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hilda Lease Jay

3. The civil architecture of Vitruvius : comprising those books of the author which relate to the public and private edifices of the ancients / translated by William Wilkins, M.A. F.A.S., late fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; author of the 'Antiquities of Magna Graecia" ; illustrated by numerous engravings ; with an introduction, containing an historical view of the rise and progress of architecture amongst the Greeks.

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Creator:: Vitruvius Pollio
Date:: 1812 [i.e. 1812-1817]
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The architectural director: being a guide to builders, draughtsman, students, workmen, in the study, design, and execution of architecture ...

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Creator:: Billington, John, architect
Date:: 1834
Physical Description:: viii, 344, iii, 105 p. plates, diagrs., plans, tables. 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The architectural director: being an approved guide to architects, draughtsmen, students, amateurs, and builders, in the study, employment, and execution of architecture ... By John Billington, of the Royal Academy of Architecture at Paris. Illustrated by 55 plates and 14 comprehensive tables.

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Creator:: Billington, John, architect
Date:: 1833
Physical Description:: [iii]-xv, 383 p. 55 plates (incl. diagrs.; part fold.) fold. tables. 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. ... The builder's practical director, or Buildings for all classes, enabling every freeholder to be his own surveyor and builder; containing plans, sections and elevations for the erection of cottages, villas, farm buildings, dispensaries, public schools, &c., with detailed estimates, quantities, prices, &c. ...

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Date:: [1850?]
Physical Description:: iv, 264, [2] p. illus., 132 (i.e. 134) plates (partly col. incl. plans) diagrs. 28 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts