By FRED. T. HODGSON.

HANDSOMELY BOUND IN CLOTH, GILT TITLE. PRICE, - $2.00.

Current Prices of Lumber, Hardware, Glass, Plumbers' Supplies, Paints, Slates, Stones, Limes, Cements, Bricks, Tin and other Building Materials; also, Prices of Labor, and Cost of Performing the Several Kinds of Work Required in Building. Togetber with Prices of Doors, Frames, Sashes, Stairs, Mouldings, Newels, and other Machine Work. To which is appended a large number of Building Rules, Data, Tables and Useful Memoranda, with a Glossary of Architectural and Building Terms.

This is an entirely new work, and gives Prices of Labor and Materials down to a recent date, and is. therefore, the most reliable book in the market on the subject of prices of labor and materials required for building. The work contains, besides Prices, Data, Rules, and Several Hundred Tallies and Hints on Building, a blank column where the prices of Labor or Material may be written in pencil, where such prices differ from those given in the book. There is also a very complete Glossary of Building and Architectural Terms appended to the work, which is a useful and valuable addition for practical builders.

The work is really a Cyclopaedia of Prices and Builder's Tallies. Data and Memoranda, and is necessarily a large work, having over 330 pages, each page being 7 1/4 x 4 3/4, and covered with closely printed matter.

In order to give an idea of what the work contains, we give the following brief

Synopsis Of Contents: Part I

Contains Hints ami Rules for Correcl Estimating. - Forms for Taking Estimates. Quantities, Prices, and Manner of Computation. - General Memoranda of items tor Estimates. - Excavations. - Foundations. - Drains. - Iron Work. liaths and Water closets, Brick Walls. Carpenter's Work. - Joiner's Work. - Mantels, Grates, Stove Fittings, etc. - Pantry, closets. Kitchens and Appurtenances. -Hell Hanging, Gas Fixing and Fixtures. - Stairs and Staircases. - Roofs, Gutters and Conductors. - Porches. Verandas ami fences. Framing; Cost of same. Cost of Painting, Plastering, Shingling, Slating, Tinning, Finishing, Glazing. Building Chimneys, and other Brick Work. - Rules for Measuring all kinds of Hip and other Roofs, with Cost of same. - Rough Boarding. Shingling, Siding, Laying floors, and Other Work. - Cost of Material and Labor for Stairs.

Newels, Balusters, Rails, Doors. Mouldings, Sliding and Folding Doors, Windows of all kinds. Blinds, Wainscoting. Baseboards, Finials, Cresting, Plumbing, Flooring, and everything else used about a Building.

Part II

Contains an Extensive Scheduleoi Builder's Prices, for Digging! Shovelling, Bamming in Loose Earth, Clay and Gravel. - Cost of Masonry, Hubble. Hammer-Dressed Work. Bough Hock Work. Reveals, Ashler Work, Reairs. Arches. Plain Work. Rubbed Work, Beaded Work, Fluting, Reeding', Throating, Grooving, Rebating, Leading In Work, Sunken Work, Mortising, etc. - Prices of all kinds of Native Stones per Cubic Foot Prices of Cements; Portland. Rosendale, Keene's, Lime of Teil. Lime, Lath. Slate, etc. Bricklaying; Price per 1,000, Laborer's Wages, Prices of Bricks or Differenl Grades, Circular and Elliptical Work, Brick Paving of all kinds. Laid Dry or in Mortar. Drain Pipes. Cost and Quality; Terra-ciotta Chimney Tops, Cresting, Tiles and Mouldings, etc. - Colored Bricks, Tuck Pointing, Setting in Sash and Door Frames, Taking Down Old Work, Rebuilding with Old Bricks, Firebricks, Tile Work, Quality and Prices of Bricks from Various Localities, Prices of Peerless Brick Company's Colored Bricks, Colored Mortars and Cements, Odd-Shaped Bricks. - Plasterer s Work. Scaffolding, Lathing, Mortars for all kinds of Work. Cements for Walls and Ceilings, Cornices and stucco Work. Plaster-of-Paris Flower and ornamental Work. Kalsomining and Washes of all Kinds. Carpenter's and Joiner's Work; Wages, Prices of Lumber, Prices of Made-up Stuff' of all Kinds. - Hard-wood Work. Nails. Screws. Locks. Putts and other Hardware. - Stairs of all'Kinds, Table for Finding the RHun and Rise of Treads and Risers, Turned Work for Stairs and other Work. - Painting, Colors, Prices for Different Kinds of Work, Ladders, Scaffolding, Tools, Graining, Painting Iron Work, Staining, Repairing Old Work. Numerical Work. Varnishing, Lettering, Oiling, Sash and Door Painting, Mixing Colors, Prices of Colors, Miscellaneous Remarks. - Roofing Materials of all "Kinds, with Prices and Cost of Laying; Hell-Hanging Materials. Skylights, Tubs, Sinks, Sheet Iron, Pumps, Tanks, Registers, Ventilators, Wire Ropes, "and other matters required in Building.

Part III

Contains Rules for Builder's Bookkeeping, Form of Balance Sheet, Rules for Measuring Artificer's Work, including Excavation. Drains. Shoring, Concreting, and Labor in General: also Methods of Measuring all Kinds of Materials for Brick, Stone, or Wood Work. - Elements of the Mechanics of Architecture, Strength of Materials, Rules for Obtaining Same; Iron, Wood. Stone and Brick, Crushing Loads for Various Building Materials, Columns. Iron. Wood Stone. - Tables for Computing the Strength of "Materials, Factors of Safety. Rolled-Iron Beams and Girders. - Bricks arid Brick Piers, Terra-Cotta, Strength and Qualities of Cements and Mortars, Fire-Brick, Colored Mortars, Granite and other Stone.

Part IV

Miscellaneous Tables. - Weight of Iron. Lead, Brass, Copper and Cast Iron, per Foot Superficial or in Bars; strength of Round Ropes, Weighl of Boiler Iron, Wrought-Iron Pipes, Flat and Round Wire Ropes for Elevators. Iron Roofing, Lead Pipes, Nails, Foreign Weights and Measures, Force of Wind. Square Measure, Long Measure, Equivalents. Arithmetical and other Signs, Expansion by Heat, Force of Explosives, Number of Shingles. Slates. Tiles and other Covering Required for 100 feet of Roofing, Number of Bricks Required for Given Wall, Strength of Woods, Loads for Bridges, Strains on Bridges and Trusses, Specific Gravities.

Part V

Mensuration of Superfices, Areas of Squares, Cubes, Triangles, Multi-sided Figures, etc.; Measurements of Solids, Cubes, Cones, Cylinders. Spheres, etc.; Squares and Cubes of Numbers, Table of Spherical Contents, Diameters, Circumferences and Areas of Circles, Board and Plank Measure. Scantling Measure, Wages Table, Sizes and Capacities of Cribs, Boxes and Tanks.

Part VI

Mechanics' Lien Laws of Alabama. Arkansas, Connecticut. California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana. Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Louisiana, Massachusetts. Maryland, Mississippi, Michigan, Missouri. New Jersey, Nevada, Nebraska. New Hampshire, North Carolina, New York, Oregon, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Ontario.

Part VII

Schedule of Architect's Charges. Drawings, Superintendence. Percentage on Public Buildings. - Architect's Rules and Methods of Charging for Services Rendered. - Leading Architectural and Building Journals. - Glossary of Architectural and Building Terms. (This "Glossary" covers some fifty-seven pages, and deals with over One Thousand Terms used in Architecture and Building).

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