Shelfmark
Gc.4.05 - Gc.4.06
Title
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, requisiteto 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..
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Gentleman and architect's companion
Publication, distribution, etc.
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., M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]
Physical description
2 v. ([496] p., XV folded leaves of plates; [508] p., XXVI-XXXIII folded leaves of plates) : ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Note
"Masons ... bricklayers", "plaisterers ... smiths" and "turners ... plumbers, &c" printed as three parallel columns on t.p.
Note
Title-page to vol. II begins: "The builder's dictionary: or, Architect's companion. ... " and has "Vol. II." rather than "In two volumes" as volume statement.
Note
Unpaginated volumes.
Note
There are different settings of sigs. B-G in vol. 1. The verso of sig. B5 line 1 "Architecture" is in italics; variant: "Architecture" is in Roman.
Note
Vol. 1 has an engraved frontispiece on leaf [A]1v.
Note
A pamphlet entitled "An advertisement to be inserted in the second volume of the Builder's Dictionary", [1734], corrects the entry on milled lead.
Note
Signatures: vol. 1 [A]² a⁴ B-2H⁸ 2I²; vol. 2: pi² (-pi1) A-2H⁸ 2I⁶ (-2I6; 2I6=pi2?).
Note
Main body of text printed in double columns.
Note
Bookseller's advertisements at foot of leaf 2I2r of vol. 1 and on leaf 2I5v of vol. 2.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T4370
Provenance
Booklabel recording bequest to Eton College by Nicholas Mann in 1754.
Binding
Contemporary English sprinkled calf; gilt double fillet border; four raised bands; traces of spine labels.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting the frontispiece in vol. 1.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Dd.6.16 - Dd.6.17.
Subject
Architecture Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Subject
Building Dictionaries Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Bettesworth, Arthur, ? - -1739 publisher.
Added entry--name
Hitch, Charles, ? - -1764 publisher.
Added entry--name
Austen, Stephen, ? - d. 1750 publisher.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--name
A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch (Firm) publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B48847