Author: NICHOLSON, PETER
Title: The Builder's and Workman's New Director: Comprising Explanations of the General Principles of Architecture, of the Practice of Building, and of the Several Mechanical Arts Connected Therewith; Also the Elements and Practice of Geometry in Its Applicatio
Description: Edinburgh, A Fullarton and Co. 1853, Sixth Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged. Full Leather, 285mm. x 230mm. Book, ix. [2], 3- 471, [1] pages, 157 b/w plates. Original full leather boards, rebacked, 5 raised bands to spine, with decoration and title labelprelims and half title loose, with creasing, sporadic spotting, some inked marginalia, some staining and small tears to plates, additional Civil Architecture plate before plate 1, gilt tooled labels to front and rear pastedown, at front 'John Mackay', at rear 'John Mackay Builder 1866' note in text refers to Mackay as from Durness. Archer 224.9. [798]. Very Good.

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