Shelfmark
Gc.3.03
Author
Title
A treatise on carpentry. In which are contain'd the most concise and authentick rules of that art, in a more exact method than has yet been made publick. Explain'd by twenty-eight copper-plates. By Francis Price..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed by C. Ackers in St. John's-Street, for the author; and sold by W. Meadows at the Angel in Cornhill; T. Astley at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Worrall at the Judge's-Head overagainst St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street., MDCCXXXIII. [1733]
Physical description
[4], ii, [2], 33, [1], [28] leaves of plates : ill., tables ; 26 cm. (4to)
Note
The first edition of "The British carpenter".
Note
Frontispiece is engraved testimonial signed: N. Hawksmoor, Jno. James, Ja. Gibbs.
Citation/references note
Harris, 707
Citation/references note
ESTC, T194727
Provenance
Ownership inscription: Nic. Mann.
Provenance
Loosely inserted slip with ms. note of book's price as £0.8.6.
Provenance
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Binding
Contemporary reversed calf; blind-tooled border; rebacked in reversed calf, retaining original red leather spine label.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dd.3.17.
Subject
Carpentry Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Ackers, Charles, 1702? - 1759 printer.
Added entry--name
Price, Francis, ? - 1753 publisher.
Added entry--name
Meadows, William, ? - d. 1760 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Astley, Thomas, ? - d. 1759 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Worrall, Thomas, ? - d. 1767 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B48169