The Builder's Guide and Estimator's Price Book; Being a compilation of current prices of lumber, hardware, glass, plumbers' supplies, paints, slates, stones, limes, cements, bricks, tin, and other building materials; also prices of labor and cost of performing the several kinds of work required in building. Together with prices of doors, frames, sashes, stairs, mouldings, newels, and other machine work. To which is appended a large number of building rules, data, tables and useful memoranda, with a glossary of architectural and building terms
New York: The Industrial Publication Company, 1882. First edition. Original Boards. 12 mo (5" x 7.5"), pp. 331, indexed w/period ads, illustrated w/charts, includes glossary of architectural terms. Stamped by a previous owner inside the front cover. Very Good. Item #21310
This work was chiefly intended to assist the builder and contractor in making estimates of the cost of work they may be competing for. Besides the hints and aids to the estimator, the book presents a number of valuable tables and memoranda of a useful and scientific kind, taken from standard works by Nicholson, Barlowe, Tredgold, Rankine, Fairbairn, Hodgkinson, Trautwine and others, as well as building information, rules, and recipes for construction, repairs, or decoration of buildings. A classic in the field.
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