16. Builder's Price Book.
The Builder's Price-Book. . . . 5th ed., corrected. London, 1788.
The University does not own the fifth edition of this book but has recently
acquired a copy of the sixth edition.
THE / BUILDER'S / PRICE-BOOK; / CONTAINING / A CORRECT
LIST OF THE PRICES / ALLOWED BY THE MOST
EMINENT / SURVEYORS IN LONDON, / TO THE SEVERAL /
ARTIFICERS CONCERNED IN BUILDING; / INCLUDING /
THE JOURNEYMEN'S PRICES. / THE SIXTH EDITION, / CORRECTED.
/ BY AN EXPERIENCED SURVEYOR. / LONDON: /
Printed for I. and J. TAYLOR, at the Architectural Library, / No. 56,
opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn. / MDCCLXXXVIII.
Small 8vo. Title page (1 leaf); foreword (1 unnumbered p.); table of
contents (1 unnumbered p.); text ([1]-176); [new pagination:] catalogue
of books ([1]-8).
Although Sowerby had no copy of the fifth edition for examination, she
describes it as a small quarto of eighty-three leaves; as having been
entered in Jefferson's undated manuscript catalogue with no price, as
having been bound for Jefferson during August 1805, and as having
been printed for I. and J. Taylor. Its original price was 2.6. sewed.
The editor says of his book in his foreword to the sixth edition:
The increased reputation which each impression of this work has experienced,
particularly the last, (the whole being sold within a few months) tends more
to evince its real utility, than any words possibly can; at the same time, it affords
the most pleasing reflection to the Proprietors, that the attention paid to
the addition of new articles, the correcting of old ones, and carefully examining
every reprinting, has been rewarded with the satisfaction of the Public.
It is hoped, the favourable opinions already obtained, will at least be
continued, if not increased, by the present corrected edition.
Prices are for units of work for blacksmiths, bricklayers, carpenters,
carvers, gilders, glaziers, joiners, masons, painters, pavers,
"Plaisterers," plumbers, sawyers, and slaters. These are given in a series
of tables with the prices for the work, at various levels of skill, for each
trade.
The catalogue of books at the end of the sixth edition ("Catalogue
of Modern Books on Architecture, &c.") lists fifty-nine titles from the
Architectural Library at No. 56, Holborn.
Jefferson's copy of the fifth edition was sold to Congress. The book
was not ordered for the University.
M
Sowerby 1181
[*TH435.B82.1788]
