The builder's golden rule, or the youth's sure guide: containing the greatest variety of ornamental and useful designs in architecture and carpentry. ... for materrals and labour. The second edition.

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British Library

T094066

'An estimate of prices for materials and labour, .. By William Pain' has separate pagination and register. The plates are numbered to 98, but are incomplete.

London : printed for the author, by H. D. Steel, 1782. [2],iii,[1],18;[2],58p.,plates ; 8°