@article{635847, note = {'The carpenter's plain and exact rule' has a separate titlepage, which has "The twelfth edition", and bears the imprint: printed by J. Hoey.}, author = {F. P.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/635847}, title = {The builder's guide, shewing, the qualities, quantities, proportions, and Rates or Value of all materials relating to building; with the best Method of preparing many of them. Also The Customs and Methods of Measuring of all Artificers Work concerned in Building; the Prices not only of Workmanship but of Materials; which will be extraordinarily useful in making of Bargains between the Undertaker and Workman: With Gunter's Line, Coggeshall's Description of the Sliding-Rule, the Extraction and Uses of the Square and Cube Roots, &c. Together with aphorisms or necessary rules in building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, Form, &c. To which is added, the ground rules of architecture. Likewise, an explanation of technical terms used in this work. By F. P. builder. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed by James Hoey, Sen. and James Hoey, Jun. at the Mercury in Skinner-Row,}, recid = {635847}, pages = {[8],120p. ;}, address = {Dublin :}, year = {1758}, }