| A complete Explanation of the London Practice. | Variations before Acceptance of Tender. |
| General Instructions. | Errors in a Builder’s Estimate. |
| Order of Taking Off. | Schedule of Prices. |
| Modes of Measurement of the various Trades. | Form of Schedule of Prices. |
| Use and Waste. | Analysis of Schedule of Prices. |
| Ventilation and Warming. | Adjustment of Accounts. |
| Credits, with various Examples of Treatment. | Form of a Bill of Variations. |
| Abbreviations. | Remarks on Specifications. |
| Squaring the Dimensions. | Prices and Valuation of Work, with Examples and Remarks upon each Trade. |
| Abstracting, with Examples in illustration of each Trade. | The Law as it affects Quantity Surveyors, with Law Reports. |
| Billing. | Taking Off after the Old Method. |
| Examples of Preambles to each Trade. | Northern Practice. |
| Form for a Bill of Quantities. | The General Statement of the Methods recommended by the Manchester Society of Architects for taking Quantities. |
| Do. Bill of Credits. | Examples of Collections. |
| Do. Bill for Alternative Estimate. | Examples of “Taking Off” in each Trade. |
| Restorations and Repairs, and Form of Bill. | Remarks on the Past and Present Methods of Estimating. |
A Practical Treatise on Heat, as applied to the Useful Arts; for the Use of Engineers, Architects, &c. By Thomas Box. With 14 plates. Third edition, crown 8vo, cloth, 12s. 6d.
A Descriptive Treatise on Mathematical Drawing Instruments: their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon Drawing and Colouring. By W. F. Stanley, M.R.I. Fifth edition, with numerous illustrations, crown 8vo, cloth, 5s.
Spons’ Architects’ and Builders’ Pocket-Book of Prices and Memoranda. Edited by W. Young, Architect. Royal 32mo, roan, 4s. 6d.; or cloth, red edges, 3s. 6d. Published annually. Eleventh edition. Now ready.
Long-Span Railway Bridges, comprising Investigations of the Comparative Theoretical and Practical Advantages of the various adopted or proposed Type Systems of Construction, with numerous Formulæ and Tables giving the weight of Iron or Steel required in Bridges from 300 feet to the limiting Spans; to which are added similar Investigations and Tables relating to Short-span Railway Bridges. Second and revised edition. By B. Baker, Assoc. Inst. C.E. Plates, crown 8vo, cloth, 5s.
Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges and Roofs. By August Ritter, Ph.D., Professor at the Polytechnic School at Aix-la-Chapelle. Translated from the third German edition, by H. R. Sankey, Capt. R.E. With 500 illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 15s.
The Builders Clerk: a Guide to the Management of a Builder’s Business. By Thomas Bales. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 1s. 6d.
The Elementary Principles of Carpentry. By Thomas Tredgold. Revised from the original edition, and partly re-written, by John Thomas Hurst. Contained in 517 pages of letter-press, and illustrated with 48 plates and 150 wood engravings. Third edition, crown 8vo, cloth, 18s.
Section I. On the Equality and Distribution of Forces—Section II. Resistance of Timber—Section III. Construction of Floors—Section IV. Construction of Roofs—Section V. Construction of Domes and Cupolas—Section VI. Construction of Partitions—Section VII. Scaffolds, Staging, and Gantries—Section VIII. Construction of Centres for Bridges—Section IX. Coffer-dams, Shoring, and Strutting—Section X. Wooden Bridges and Viaducts—Section XI. Joints, Straps, and other Fastenings—Section XII. Timber.
Our Factories, Workshops, and Warehouses: their Sanitary and Fire-Resisting Arrangements. By B. H. Thwaite, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E. With 183 wood engravings, crown 8vo, cloth, 9s.