Atchley's Builders' Price Book For 1870 Containing A Complete List of the Present Prices of Builders' Materials and Labour, Of All Trades in Connection with Building Useful and Important Tables, and Memoranda for Preparing Estimates, Compiled by a Staff of Experienced Men. To which are added Builders Prices for the West Riding of Yorkshire Specially prepared for this work Tables for Calculating Wages Builders Measurements With Bills of Quantities Marks and Qualities of Timber, with Rules for Calculating the Various Standards Iron as applied to Building Structures By a Civil Engineer Metropolitan Building Act List of Members, District Officers, and Regulations of the Board of Works. [Early or First Edition Thus Publish

London: Atchley & Co., 1870, Early Edition. Publisher’s binding, gilt titles to the front board and spine, faded, rubbed and worn, top page edges darkened, others tanned. Repaired to the hinges, which are a little tight, the text block splitting part way in the middle of the volume. Scarce work. Provenance: signatures for George Sherwood, Canterbury 1887 and W Gascoigne to the front. Pagination: [viii of adverts], 363pp, 23pp Atchley Architectural Engineering and Decorative Art Catalogue, 23pp adverts the rear. Approximately 7 ¼ inches tall (17.5cm). Condition Report Externally Spine – good condition – gilt titles, rubbed and worn. Joints – good condition – sound, rubbed and worn. Corners – good condition – rubbed, bumped and worn. Boards – good condition – rubbed and worn, gilt titles to the front. Page edges – good condition – tanned and darkened. See above and photos. Internally Hinges – good condition – intact, repaired, a little tight. Paste downs – good condition – adverts, tanned, marked. End papers – good condition – adverts, tanned, marked. Title – good condition – tanned, with minor marks. Pages – good condition – tanned, with minor marks, last, the text block is split in the middle of the volume. Binding – good condition – sound. …