Operative masonry: or, A theoretical and practical treatise of building; : containing a scientific account of stones, clays, bricks, mortars, cements, &c.; a description of their component parts, with the manner of preparing and using them. : The fundamental rules in geometry, on masonry and stone-cutting, with their application to practice. : Illustrated with forty copper-plate engravings. / By Edward Shaw, architect, author of Civil architecture, &c.

Main entry:

Shaw, Edward, 1784-

Title & Author:

Publication:

Boston: : Marsh, Capen & Lyon., 1832.

Description:

140 p., [40] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.

Notes:
Spine title, on printed paper label: Shaw's Operative masonry.
Plates signed: G. Boynton, sc.
Copyright 1832 by Marsh, Capen & Lyon.
Checklist of American imprints, 14681
Hitchcock, H.R. American architectural books, 1159

Subject:

Masonry.
Architecture.
Stone-cutting.
Maçonnerie.
Pierre Taille.

Form/genre:

Library rules.
Intaglio prints.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) 1832.
Paper labels (Binding)
Bookplates (Provenance) Library rules. MWA
Library copies (Provenance) MWA

Added entries:

Boynton, George W., -1884, engraver.
Marsh, Capen, and Lyon, publisher.
United States Massachusetts Boston.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 29247
Call No.: 1867; ID:88-B14909
Status: Available

Location: Library main 29246
Call No.: 37; ID:88-B14909
Status: Available

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