SOLD Claygate Old English Fireplaces

Claygate Old English Fireplaces catalogue, dated 1934. Chapters include: The old English fireplace, head offices, Mottled stock bricks, old English fireplaces, garden features, kiosk in oak with briquette filling, buildings in which Claygate bricks have been used, houses erected under our supervision, tennis courts, antique ironwork, mullion bricks, “Wellog firedogs”, list of briquettes, designs of various briquettes. This old softback book includes 64 pages with black and white photographs plus many detailed drawings throughout.

Date: 1934
Author: Claygate Old English Fireplaces catalogue

Modern Practical Building (Volumes 1-3)

Modern Practical Building Volumes 1-3 by Harry Bryant Newbold, published by Caxton publishing and dated 1948. Chapters include:
Planning and design, site preparation and organisation, surveying and levelling, road construction, shoring, ties, underpinning and hoardings, excavating, foundations and footings, piling, drainagescaffolding and hoisting, stonework and masonry, mortars, brickwork, ornamental and gauged brickwork, structural design, structural steelwork, tiles and tiling, slates and slating, thatch and shingles, roof and wall sheeting, metal roofing, timber, carpentry, floors, joints and partitions, roof construction, timber framed buildings, plastering surfaces and materials, building defects and repairs plus other chapters.
Volume one includes 314 pages, volume two 351 pages, volume three 313 pages. All three books include a number of diagrams, black and white photographs and tables. Volume one has small tares to the first four pages.  

Date: 1948
Author: Harry Bryant Newbold
Delivery: E
Price : £25.00

Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works

Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works, dated 1927, authorised by agreement between the surveyors Institution, The quantity surveyors associations, now incorporated with the surveyors institution. The national federation of building trades employers of Great Britain & Ireland and the institute of builders. This old hardback book includes 73 pages.

Date: 1927
Author: --
Delivery: D
Price : £50.00

Principles of Modern Building (Volume 2)

Principles of Modern Building Volume 2 - Floors and Roofs. Published in 1961 by Her Majesty's Stationary office. Main chapters include: - Suspended floors, - solid floors on the ground, - Floor finishes, - Floor heating, - Roofs, - Flat roofs, - Pitched roofs, - Shell roofs and other special types. Includes 199 pages some have tables and diagrams, maintains original dust cover.

Date:1961
Book size :
Author: Published by Her Majesty's Stationary office
Delivery: B
Price : £18.00

Mitchell's Elementary Building Construction

Mitchell's Elementary Building Construction, first published 1959, reprinted 1964 and printed by The Whitefrias Press Ltd. Chapters include: - Survey, - Excavation, - Concrete, - Walling, - Masonry brickwork, - Masonry stonework, - Timber, - Roofs and floors, - Joinery, - Pitched roof coverings, - Drainage plus a few other chapters. Includes 392 pages many with drawings and diagrams.

Date:1964
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Author: Mitchell’s
Delivery: B
Price : £16.00

Mordern Practical Building (Volumes 1 - 4)

The modern practical building volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 by Harry Bryant Newbold and published by Caxton. First published March 1934, reprinted july 1954. A few sample chapters include: Stairs and stair-building, water supply and inside sanitation, heating, ventilation, thermal and sound insulation, painting, decoration, glazier's work, prefabricated construction, ornamental brickwork, fireplaces and flutes, structural design, structural steelwork. Timber, carpentry: centering and shuttering, roof construction, timber framed buildings, joinery doors and windows plus many other building related chapters. Pages: Volume 1 has 366 pages, volume 2 has 353 pages, volume 3 has 315 pages and volume 4 has 380 pages. Each book has a number of photographs, diagrams, drawings and charts featured within them.

Date:1954
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Author: Harry Bryant Newbold
Delivery: E
Price : £38.00

Quantities in architectural building construction volume 1 by F.E.Drury & Graham Doyle, 1934, 235 pages with illustrations, Bill of quantities and at rear a fold out house plan of "the cottage". Cover faded, lot of information. 7 3/4" x 5 3/8".

Date: 1934
Book size: 7 3/4" x 5 3/8"
Author:
Delivery: A
Price : £18.00