Volume Two by Illustrated Carpenter Builder (1 results)

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 seven universities as having any issues at all. Covers rubbed and discolored, internally very good.…