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YOUNG ARCHITECTS:

COMPRISING

ADVICE TO THOSE WHO, WHILE YET AT SCHOOL ARE DESTINED
TO THE PROFESSION;

SUCH AS, HAVING PASSED THEIR PUPILAGE, ARE ABOUT TO TRAVEL
AND TO THOSE WHO, HAVING COMPLETED THEIR EDUCATION,
ARE ABOUT TO PRACTISE:

TOGETHER WITH

A MODEL SPECIFICATION:

INVOLVING A GREAT VARIETY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND SUGGESTIVE MATTER CALCULATED TO FACILITATE THEIR PRACTICAL OPERATIONS;

AND TO DIRECT THEM IN THEIR CONDUCT, AS THE RESPONSIBLE AGENTS OF THEIR EMPLOYERS,

AND AS THE RIGHTFUL JUDGES OF A CONTRACTOR'S DUTY.

BY GEORGE WIGHTWICK, ARCHITECT.

CONTENTS :

Preliminary Hints to Young Archi- Model Specification:

tects on the Knowledge of

Drawing.

On Serving his Time.

On Travelling.

His Plate on the Door.

Orders, Plan-drawing.

On his Taste, Study of Interiors.

Interior Arrangements.
Warming and Ventilating.
House Building, Stabling.
Cottages and Villas.
Model Specification :—
General Clauses.
Foundations.

Well.

Artificial Foundations.

Brickwork.

Rubble Masonry with Brick
Mingled.

Stone-cutting.

Grecian or Italian only.
Gothic only.

Miscellaneous.

Slating.

Tiling.

Plaster and Cement-work.

Carpenters' Work.

Joiners' Work.

Iron and Metal-work.
Plumbers' Work.
Drainage.
Well-digging.

Artificial Levels, Concrete,
Foundations, Piling and
Planking, Paving, Vaulting,
Bell-hanging, Plumbing, and
Building generally.

Extra cloth boards, price 88.

WORKS JUST PUBLISHED BY MR. WEALE.

CARPENTRY AND BUILDING.

Now complete in two vols. 4to., with 190 plates, price 2l. 16s. in cloth boards, lettered.

CARPENTRY;

A comprehensive and useful work for Carpenters, Builders, Workmen,
and Students in Architecture.

VOL I comprises the purely elementary-a book of lines;-geometry ;-practical rules on the art of drawing for the operative builder and young student in archi tecture;-rules for drawing buildings;-principles and practice of colouring, and putting in effects for architectural drawing, &c.

VOL. II. consists of subjects of practical utility and of recent design and construction in the Classic and Italian styles;-plans, elevations and details of clubhouses, taverns, shop fronts, verandahs, &c.; ancient timber constructions, open roofs, &c.

Elementary and practical geometry, or book of lines for a carpenter's guide 60
Drawings for the operative builder and young student in architecture
Staircases and hand-rails, &c. &c.

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Details of the construction of the wooden columns in the New Hall, King's College, Cambridge

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Plan and elevation of Athenæum Club-House

Plans, elevation, and details of Arthur's Club-house

Elevations and details of verandahs, principally of examples from Brighton 26 Girard's College for Orphans, plans, elevations, and sections

Plans, elevations, and sections in constructive art

The Temple of Jerusalem, the type of Grecian Architecture, plans, sections, and elevations

Joiners' work (examples of), elevations, sections, details, and plans of doors, &c.

Details of the roofs of the Charter-house and Clerkenwell Church

Shop Fronts, elevation, plans, and details :

Ladies' shoe-maker's, Mount Street, Grosvenor Square

Dyer's, Elizabeth Street, Chester Square

Umbrella and cane shop, Regent Street

Tailor and draper's, Regent Street

Elizabethan terminations of shop fronts and consoles

Details of joinery and carpentry in Windsor Castle, in plan, elevation, &c.
Joinery and carpentry of the Duke of Sutherland's Mansion at Lilleshall
Plans and elevation of the Percy Arms, Lloyd's Square, Pentonville
Elevation of roof at Exeter Hall, and other roofs

Panelling-Interior of the Star Chamber, Westminster

Ecclesiastical wood-work :

Roof of the nave, St. Mary Westonzoyland, Somersetshire
Roof in Lavenham church, Suffolk

Roof in Beresford church, Oxfordshire
Roof in Wantage church, Berkshire

Nave roof, St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmund's

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The preceding works may be had in separate forms for the convenience of purchasers, each having a distinctive title.

VOL. I.-Elementary part, complete:

Nicholson's Carpenters' New Guide: a book of lines considerably improved, with additions to the present time, and containing an Introduction to Practical Mathematics and Mensuration, together with practical rules on drawing, for the operative builder and young student in architecture. 74 engravings, cloth boards, price 17. 4s.

VOL. II.-Complete, Practical:

Staircases-details of the construction of wooden columns-plans and elevations of club-houses-twenty-six illustrations of verandahs-practical illustrations of architecture-roofs and ecclesiastical wood-work-joinery of Windsor Castle and at Lilleshall, Salop-shop fronts, &c. 116 plates with text, cloth boards price 17. 128.

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BY

T TALBOT BURY, ARCHITECT,

Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Associate of the Institution of
Civil Engineers, and Author of 'The Remains of Ecclesiastical Woodwork.'