@article{669706,
      recid = {669706},
      author = {Carter, John, and Cook, Andrew George.},
      title = {The builder's magazine, and complete architectural library  for architects, surveyors, carpenters, masons, bricklayers,  &c. As well as for every gentleman who would wish to be  a competent judge of the elegant and necessary art of  building. Consisting of designs in architecture, in every  stile and taste, from the most magnificent and superb  structures, down to the most simple and unadorned. Together  with the plans, sections, and elevations, serving as an  unerring assistant in the construction of any building,  from a palace to a cottage. In which will be introduced,  grand and elegant designs for chimney-pieces, ceilings,  doors, windows, &c. proper for halls, saloons,  vestibules, state rooms, dining rooms, parlours, drawing  rooms, anti rooms, dressing rooms, bed rooms, &c.  Together with designs for churches, hospitals, and other  public buildings. Also plans, elevations, and sections, in  the Greek, Roman, and Gothic taste, calculated to embellish  parks, gardens, forests, woods, canals, mounts, vistos,  islands, extensive views, &c. Exclusive of the new and  elegant designs, ample instructions are given in the  letter-press concerning all the terms of art used in every  branch of building. Also, under proper heads, the laws for  the regulation of buildings-the substance of the Builders  Act, &c.-and a list of the prices allowed by the most  eminent surveyors in London to the several artificers  concerned in building. The whole forming a complete system  of architecture in all its branches, and so disposed as to  render the surveyor, carpenter, bricklayer, mason, &c.  equally capable to erect a cathedral, a mansion, a temple,  or a rural cot. ... Embellished with upwards of three  hundred elegant quarto and folio engravings. By a Society  of Architects, each having undertaken the department in  which he particularly excels. Revised, corrected, and  superintended, by Andrew George Cook, architect and  builder. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed by M. Allen, Paternoster-Row, for Alex. Hogg, at  the King's-Arms, No. 16, Paternoster-Row,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {2v. ([4], 345, [1], 8 p.; [2] 100 p., CLXXXV plates;},
      year = {1794},
      note = {Society of Architects = John Carter. },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/669706},
}