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CROSBY LOCKWOOD & SON’S CATALOGUE .

BUILDING, COTTAGE. By C. Bruce Allen. Twelfth

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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION (PRACTICAL). A Hand-book for Students Preparing for Examinations, and a Book of Referencefor Persons Engaged in Building. By John Parnell Allen, P.A.S.I.,Formerly Lecturer on Building Construction at the Armstrong College. ofScience, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Medium8vo, 596 pp., with over 1,300 Illustrations, cloth. [Just Published, Net 7/6

Bricks and their Composition—Brick Bond and its application—BrickReveals and Arches—Damp and its Prevention—Building Stones—Stone Dress-ings—'Wood for Building Purposes—wood Floors—Partitions—Roofs—Ironand Steel—Rivets and Riveting—Iron Roofs—Coverings for Roofs—FireproofFloors—Joints and mouldings in Joinery—Doors—Windows—Wooden Stairs—Skylights and Lanterns—plastering and Painting—Centring foundations, &c.—Stresses—Calculation of Strains—Sanitation—fireplaces—Weights andStrengths—Quantities and Prices, &c., and Appendices.

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BUILDING INSPECTION, ELEMENTARY MANUAL OF;

or, How to Become a Building Inspector. By W11. R. Purchase, BuildingInspector to the Borough of Hove, Author of “Practical Masonry.” 136 pp.,With 9 Plates of Diagrams. Crown 8vo, cloth. [Just Published. Net 2/6

Duties and Qualifications of Building Inspectors to Municipal Councils—Memorandum of the Local Government Board as to Bye-laws with respectto New Streets, buildings, Drainage, &c.—Setting out a Building—Founda-tions in “Made-upground ’’—Excavators’ Memoranda, Foundations, &c.—Bricks—Stocks—Place—Chuffs—Burrs—Footings of a wall—Chimneys—Flues—Damp-proof Courses—Mortar —setting —Brick-work Memoranda — Cements —Re-taining Walls—Stone Masonry-Terra-Cotta—Timber—floors—piles—Pillars—Roof Coverings—Plastering—Plasterers’ Memoranda—Drainage—Plan Book—appendix containing useful Memoranda for Building inspectors.

CABINET-MAKER’S GUIDE TO THE ENTIRE CON-STRUCTION OP CABINET WORK. By Richard Bitmead.Illustrated with Plans, Sections and Working Drawings. Crown 8vo, cloth

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CARPENTRY, PRINCIPLES OF. A Treatise on the Pres-sure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber,and the Construction of Floors, Arches, Bridges, Roofs, Uniting Iron andStone with Timber, &c. To which is added an Essay on the Nature andProperties of Timber, &c., with Descriptions of the kinds of Wood usedin Building; also numerous Tables of the Scantlings of Timber for differentpurposes, the Specific Gravities of Materials, &c. By Thomas Tredgold, C.E.With an Appendix of Specimens of Various Roofs of Iron and Stone, Illus-trated. Seventh Edition, thoroughly Revised and considerably Enlarged byE._ Wyndham Tarn, . M.A., Author of “The Science of Building,” &c.With 6r Plates, Portrait of the Author, and several Woodcuts. In One largeVol., 4to, cloth.£1 5 S ,

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CARPENTER’S GUIDE: or, Book of Lines for Carpenters;

comprising all the Elementary Principles essential for acquiring a knowledgeof Carpentry. Founded on the late Peter Nicholson’s standard work. ANew Edition, Revised by Arthur Ashpitel, F.S.A. Together with PracticalRules on Drawing, by George Pyne. With 74 Plates, 4to, cloth £1 1 s,