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• The town and country builder's assistant : absolutely necessary to be understood, by builders and workmen in general. Explaining short and easy rules. Made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working ... The whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 60 folio copper-plates. By a lover of architect
  by: Norman, John
  Published: (1786)
• 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
  by: Carter, John
  Published: (1794)
• The builder's golden rule, or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry, With the most ready practical Methods of executing the same, from the Plan to the Ornamental Finish, in the most prevailing modern Taste. The whole correctly engraved, on 106 copper-plates, with a full Explanation in Letter-Press. To which is added, An estimate of prices for materrals and labour, and Labour only, with References to the respective Designs. By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, &c
  by: Pain, William
  Published: (1782)
• The builder's jewel : or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining short and easy rules, ... for drawing and working. I. The five orders of columns entire; ... II. Block and cantaliver cornices, ... By B. and T. Langley
  by: Langley, Batty
  Published: (1797)
• The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs, or, The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture
  by: Langley, Batty
  Published: (1741)