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KEY to Civil Architecture

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Universal Britijh Builder.

CONTAINING

The Principles and Properties of BUILDING clearly de-monstrated, with Illustrations and Definitions both Theoretical andPractical; with a Dissertation on the Sciences appertainingthereto, as well as the Kindred Requisites of Strength, Conveni-ence, Propriety, and Beauty.

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A strict Enquiry into the present Manner of Building and Mode ofFinishing, and how far the Taste is consistent with Symmetry andfound Reason:

WITH A

New Criterion, or Universal Estimator ;

In which are considered the Quantity and Quality of Materials adequate for theExecution of any Building ; their exact: Value wheresoever appropriated ; thereal and universal Price alligned, proved by the Labour which is required toevery Jobb ; with practical Remarks on all the different Branches of a Building,especially on Joiners Works ; where the. most irksome and difficult Parts areconsidered and reduced to familiar Practice, by the most judicious and approvedMethods.

The Principles, Properties, and Consequence of all Sorts of Stairs defined, bothwith respect to Plans and Execution, as well as the Manner of gluing up allSorts of Hand-rails.

The Manner and Method of measuring all the different Artificers Works, as prac-tised by the most eminent Surveyors, with their Prices to each Work.-Also,

the Masters Prices, and a Schedule of Prices for Talk-Masters.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A Treatise of Arithmetic, Extraction of the Roots, Duodecimals,Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, round and square Timber,&.c. with Explanations and Reasons for the Rules.

By THOMAS S K A I F E, P. A.

CARPENTER and JOINER.

LONDON:

Printed for the Author, by I. Moore and Co. Letter-Foundersand Printers, in Qimn-Streel, near Upber-Mcorfidds.

M DCC LX XIV.