Richard Neve, The City and Countrey Purchaser, and Builder's Dictionary (1703)

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Date
1703
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Lexicon title
The City and Country Purchaser & Builder's Dictionary
Book title
The City and Countrey Purchaser, and Builder's Dictionary: or, the Compleat 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. And also The Customs, and Methods of Measuring of all Artificers Work, cioncern’d in Building; together with the City and Countrey Prices, not only of Workmanship, but of Materials also: The which will be extraordinary useful in making of Bargains, or Contracts betwixt the Workmaster and Workman; and likewise in computing the Value (or Charge of Erecting) of any Fabrick, great or small. Likewise The Explanation of the Terms of Art used by most Workmen. Together With Aphorisms, or necessary Rules in Building, as to Situation, Contrivance, Compactness, Uniformity, Conveniency, Firmness, and Form, &c.
Publication place
London
Publisher
J. Sprint, G. Conyers, and T. Ballard
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
building
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Well-hole, The Hole left in a Floor for the Stairs to come up through. (286)
STC
N005034
Other editions
1726 (ESTC T071409), 1736 (ESTC T071408)