Illustrated Carpenter Builder (7 results)

24pp, many ills, interesting adverts. 28x22, newspaper. Chips and browning to edges, chip with missing pieces to top of two pages, paper a bit brittle, fair for fragile item. Plans for a country house on the front page, with other buildings also covered in this issue, along with the usual details, adverts, notices and so on.

16pp, many ills, interesting adverts. 28x22, newspaper. Chips and browning to edges, paper a bit brittle, fair for fragile item. Plans for a country house are the main feature, with other buildings also covered in this issue, along with the usual details, adverts, notices and so on.

16pp, many ills, interesting adverts. 28x22, newspaper. Chips and browning to edges, tear without loss to leading edges of all pages, paper a bit brittle, fair for fragile item. Counter of the Yorkshire Penny Bank in Bradford illustrated on the front page, with other buildings also covered in this issue, along with the usual details, adverts, notices and so on.

16pp, many ills, interesting adverts. 28x22, newspaper. Chips and browning to edges, paper a bit brittle, front page torn without loss, fair for fragile item. Plans for a country house are the main feature, with other buildings also covered in this issue, along with the usual details, adverts, notices and so on.

16pp, 16pp, 16pp, 24pp, 8pp, many ills, interesting adverts. 28x22, newspaper. Chips and browning to edges, tears to edges usually without loss, one issue loss to two pages from tear, paper a bit brittle, Apprentices Supplement uncut, fair for fragile items. Featured building illustrated on the front page, with other buildings also covered throughout, along with the usual details, advice, adverts, notices and so on.

c 1200pp, many ills, interesting adverts. 33x23, glt lttd cloth. Spine rubbed and split, with some missing top and bottom, cloth rubbed, some light foxing, good thus. Owner's name 'Walter Midgley' in elegant copperplate on fep - probably not the celebrated tenor though; a builder from Halifax seems more likely. Fascinating volume, giving many insights into the mid-Victorian building world [heavy item, may require extra postage to some destinations].

THE ILLUSTRATED CARPENTER AND BUILDER. Volume II. (London: 1878.) Small folio. Publisher's purple cloth. 416 pages. First edition. The second volume (January 4 to June 28, 1878) of this English builder's magazine. Issued weekly for members of the trade, it includes practical articles; designs for houses; many pages of advertisements--including help wanted and situation wanted personals--and news items related to the trade. Among the articles is one titled "English houses at the Paris Exhibition," illustrating the exotic Algerian Palace in the Trocadero. OCLC only lists sev universities as having any issues at all. Covers rubbed and discolored, internally very good.