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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 works concern'd in building : together with the city and countrey prices not only of workmanship but of materials also ... : likewise the explanation of the terms of art used by most workmen : together with aphorisms or necessary rules in building ... /

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Main Author:	Neve, Richard
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Building > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800. Architecture > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800. Building materials > Prices > England > Early works to 1800. Electronic books.
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