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Handbook of Specifications. 



THE HANDBOOK OF SPECIFICATIONS ; or, Practical 

 Guide to the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor, and Builder, in drawing 

 up Specifications and Contracts for Works and Constructions. 

 Illustrated by Precedents of Buildings actually executed by eminent 

 Architects and Engineers. Preceded by a Preliminary Essay, and 

 Skeletons of Specifications and Contracts, &c., &c., and explained 

 by numerous Lithograph Plates and Woodcuts. By Professor 

 THOMAS L. DONALDSON, President of the Royal Institute of British 

 Architects, Professor of Architecture and Construction, University 

 College, London, M.I.B.A., Member of the various European 

 Academies of the Fine Arts. With A REVIEW OF THE LAW OF 

 CONTRACTS, and of the Responsibilities of Architects, Engineers, 

 and Builders. By W. CUNNINGHAM GLEN, Barrister-at-Law, of 

 the Middle Temple. 2 vols., 8vo, with upwards of iioopp. of 

 text, and 33 Lithographic Plates, cloth, 2/. 2s. (Published at 4/. ) 



" In these two volumes of i, 100 pages 'together), forty-four specifications of executed 

 Works are given, including the specifications for parts of the new Houses of Parliament, 

 by Sir Charles Barry, and for the new Royal Exchange, by Mr. Tite, M.P. The 

 latter, in particular, is a very complete and remarkable document It embodies, to a 

 great extent, as Mr. Donaldson mentions, ' the bill of quantities, with the description 

 of the works,' and occupies more than 100 printed pages. 



"Amongst the other known buildings, the specifications of which are given, are 

 the Wiltshire Lunatic Asylum (Wyatt and Brandon) ; Tothill Fields Prison (R. Abra- 

 ham) ; the City Prison, Holloway(Bunning) ; the High School, Edinburgh (Hamilton) ; 

 Clothworkers' Hall, London (Angel) ; Wellington College, Sandhurst (J. Shaw) ; 

 Houses in Grosvenor Square, and elsewhere ; St. George's Church, Doncaster 

 (Scott) ; several works of smaller size by the Author, including Messrs. Shaw's Ware- 

 house in Fetter Lane, a very successful elevation ; the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway 

 Station (J. Dobson) ; new Westminster Bridge (Page) ; the High Level Bridge, New- 

 castle (R. Stephenson) ; various works on the Great Northern Railway (Brydone) ; 

 and one French specification for Houses in the Rue de Rivoli, Paris (MM. Armand, 

 Hittorff, Pellechet, and Rohault de Fleury, architects). The last is a very elaborate 

 composition, occupying seventy pages. The majority of the specifications have illus- 

 trations in the shape of elevations and plans. 



"We are most glad to have the present work. It is valuable as a record, and more 

 valuable still as a book of precedents. 



"About 140 pages of the second volume are appropriated to an exposition of the 

 law in relation to the legal liabilities of engineers, architects, contractors, and builders, 

 by Mr. W. Cunningham Glen, Barrister-at-law ; intended rather for those persons 

 than for the legal practitioner. Suffice it, in conclusion, to say in words what our 

 readers will have gathered for themselves from the particulars we have given, that 

 Donaldson's Handbook of Specifications must be bought by all architects." Builder. 



Specifications for Practical Architecture. 



SPECIFICATIONS FOR PRACTICAL ARCHITECTURE : 

 A Guide to the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor, and Builder ; with 

 an Essay on the Structure and Science of Modern Buildings. By 

 FREDERICK ROGERS, Architect. With numerous Illustrations. 

 Demy 8vo, price 15^., cloth. 



\* A volume of specifications of a practical character being greatly required, and the 

 old standard work of Alfred Bartholomew being out of print, the author, on the basis 

 of that work, has produced the above. Some of the specifications he has so altered 

 as to bring in the now universal use of concrete, the improvements in drainage, the 

 use of iron, glass, asphalte, and other material. He has also inserted specifications 

 of works that have been erected in his own practice. 



