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 ... : 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 ... /

Frontispiece in vol. 1 by William Henry Toms after John Devoto; illustrated with etched plates.Mode of access: Internet.Bound in old sprinkled calf; gilt spines with brown gilt leather labels; sprinkled edges; bookplates of Thomas Wyndham, J.G. Batterson, and Mary Batterson Beach on front pastedowns