The builder & workman's new director : comprehending definitions and descriptions of the component parts of buildings. the principles of construction and the geometrical development of the principal difficulties that usually occur in the different branches of mechanical professions employed in the erection of edifices (1824)

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844, author · [London] : John Day, Mark King, James Pringle, Henry Joll, Edward Sanders, Robert Johnson, William Foster, John Wright & Thomas Prosser · leaf 61

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