[Rarebooks] FS: "Builder's Dictionary: or... Architect's Companion" London: 1734

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(ARCHITECTURE) THE BUILDER’S DICTIONARY: OR, GENTLEMAN AND ARCHITECT’S 
COMPANION… Also Containing the Theory and Practice of the Various Branches Thereof…
 Masons, Carpenters, Bricklayers, Glaziers, Plumbers, Etc… Together with the 
Quantities, Proportions, and Prices of All Kinds of Materials Used in Building…
 With Rules for the Valuation of Houses… The Whole Illustrated with More Than 
Two Hundred Figures, Many of Them Curiously Engraven on Copper-Plates… In Two 
Volumes. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, and S. Austen. 
1734. 8vo. 2 vols. (10),(484);(4),(504)pp. Complete with the approbation and 
errata leaves. Double column text. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece, 
33 copper engraved folding plates, and nearly 200 text figures (some 
full-page). Cont. calf, rebacked in a gilt tooled period style with red morocco spine 
labels. Some stains in the blank margins of final leaves and approbation leaf 
of Vol. II.     $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work is considered the most substantial English architectural dictionary 
published to this date.

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