Title / Name
Building Books

Brief Description
1) 'Elementary Building Construction and Drawing' by Edward J Burrell.
Small hard cover book of 276 pages. Compiled from notes of lectures delivered to the Day Students of the People's Palace Technical School produced to meet the demand for a suitable text book at a reasonable price.
Chapters include brickwork, stonework, wood joints, floors, partitions, wood roofs, slating, plumbing, doors, windows, rolled-iron, cast-iron, cantilevers, materials and iron roofs. There is also the examination papers for the years 1886 – 1899.
Inscribed 'E Hardy'.
Published by Longmans, Green & Co 39 Paternoster Row, London 1898
2) Laurie's High-Rate Interest Tables of Simple Interest' and Tables of Compound Interest by William J Dougal. Published by George Routledge & Sons London 1921. Enscribed 'E L Hardy'
3) 'Bungalows' by Henry H Saylor. Their design, construction and furnishing, with suggestions also for camps, summer homes and cottages of similar character. Published by The John C Winston Company 1911.
Supplement House Plan to 'Bungalow Magazine' 1917.
Inscribed 'E L Hardy 19. 2. 1921'

Archive Number
A223

Period Covered
1886 - 1917

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