[Rarebooks] FS: NICHOLSON'S DICTIONARY OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING, CARPENTRY &c.

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Lomax, Edward. Esq. & Thomas. Gunyon, editors.  NICHOLSON'S 
DICTIONARY OF THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING, 
CARPENTRY, etc., etc., etc., from the Earliest Ages to the Present 
Time [with Detailed Estimates, Quantities, Prices, &c].  Two 
Volumes.  London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, 
nd.  New Edition [1854].  2 Vols.  4to.  Engraved frontis plus title 
page.  516 +99 plates;  frontis + 604 + 115 pp plates. Illus by 
upwards of 1,600 working drawings; tables.  Contemporary 3/4 leather 
over textured cloth.  Raised bands and spine lettering gilt.Leather a 
little scuffed at spine and corners.  Ink name/date ( William 
Anderson Barriefield, Near Kingston Canada West, March 17th, 1862) on 
front endpaper and book plate of J.W. Murphy, MP on pastedown, both 
volumes.  Interior front hinge starting on Vol II, binding 
sound.  Some foxing throughout.  A handsome set.     CDN $350.00

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