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• Author/Creator:Skaife, Thomas.
  
• Title:A key to civil architecture, or, The universal British builder : containing the principles and properties of building clearly demonstrated with illustrations and definitions, both theoretical and practical ... : to which is added a treatise of arithmetic ... / by Thomas Skaife.
  
• Edition:Second edition : corrected, with the addition of two useful plates on the construction of stair cases.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed for R. Baldwin, 1776.
  
• Physical Description:iv, [8]-387 p., [2] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: TH144 S5 1776
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Notes:Originally published in 1774 without illustrations.
  Illustrations by J. Lodge.
  
• Variant and related titles:Key to civil architecture.
  Universal British builder.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Harris, E. British architectural books and writers. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1994,c1990. 830.
  
• Subjects:Building--Early works to 1800.
  Architecture--Early works to 1800.
  Arithmetic--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1776.
  Engraving--Specimens--Early works to 1800.
  Baldwin, R.--Publisher.
  Lodge, J., engraver.