LIST OF THE WORKS WHICH HAVE BEEN CONSULTED IN THE COMPILATION OF THIS DICTIONARY. Adcock's Rules and Data for the Steam Engine, &c. 12mo. 1839. Buchanan's Technological Dictionary. 12mo. 1849. Practical Essays on Mill-work and on Machinery and Tools. 2 vols. 8vo. edited by George Rennie, 1841. Builder's (the) Dictionary. 2 vols. 4to. 1788. Campbell's Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry. 12mo. 1849. Clegg's Essay on the Architecture of Machinery. 4to. 1842. Manufacture and Distribution of Coal Gas. 4to. 1840. Dana's Seaman's Vade Mecum. 12mo. 1849. Dempsey's Practical Railway Engineer. 4to. 1847. Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. 8vo. 1810. Dodd's (Ralph) Observations on Water. 18mo. 1805. Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. 8 vols. folio: now in course of repub lication in guinea parts. Ensamples of Railway Making. 8vo. 1843. Ewbank's Hydraulics and Machinery. 8vo. New York, 1849. Fergusson's Rock-Cut Temples of India: plates folio, text 8vo. 1845. Field's Chromatography. 8vo. 1841. Gardner's Railway Mensuration : imperial 8vo. 1848. Glossary of Architecture. 2 vols. Oxford, Parker. 1845. Greir's Mechanical Dictionary. 12mo. 1847. Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men, by Henry Law: large 8vo. 1848. Gwilt's (Joseph) Encyclopædia of Architecture. 8vo. 1847. edition of Sir William Chambers's Civil Architecture. 2 vols. imperial 8vo. 1824. Notitia Architectonica Italiano. 8vo. 1818. Hamilton on Terms used in the Arts and Sciences. 12mo. 1825. Hann's Theoretical and Practical Mechanics. 8vo. 1849. Hann's, &c. Theory and Practice of Bridges. 4 vols. in 3: large 8vo. 1843. Holzapffel's Turnery and Mechanical Manipulation. 2 vols. 8vo. 1846–7. Homersham on Water Supply to Manchester and the adjacent Towns. 8vo. 1849. Hunt's Tudor Architecture. 4to. 1830. Hutton's Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary. 2 vols. 4to. 1815. Jamieson's (Dr.) Dictionary of Mechanical Science. 4to. 1827. Mechanics for Practical Men. 8vo. 1830. Leeds's Preface to Lamb's Studies: imperial 4to. Leeds's Rudimentary Treatise on the Orders of Architecture. 12mo. 1849. Meason's Architecture of the Great Painters of Italy. 4to. 1828. Meteorological Society's Transactions, vol. i. large 8vo. 1839. National Encyclopædia, now in course of publication by Mr. Charles Knight, in monthly parts. Nicholson's Architectural Dictionary. 2 vols. 4to. 1819. Mechanical Exercises. 8vo. 1819. Normand's Parallel of the Orders of Architecture, by Pugin: folio. 1829. Palladio's Architecture, with Notes by Inigo Jones. 2 vols. folio. 1742. Pambour's Practical Treatise on Locomotive Engines. 8vo. 1840. Papers connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers. 10 vols. 4to. 1835-1849. Pole on the Cornish Pumping Engine. 1 vol. 4to. folio plates. 1844. Pryce's Treatise on Mines and Minerals. folio. 1773. Pugin's True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. 4to. 1841. Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England. 4to. 1843, Reid (Lieut.-Col.) on the Law of Storms: large 8vo. 1842. Repton's Theory and Practice of Landscape Architecture: large 4to. 1805. Rich's Companion to the Greek Lexicon and Latin Dictionary. 8vo. 1849. Smith's Classical Dictionary: large 8vo. 1849. Stalkartt's Naval Architecture. 2 vols. folio. 1803. Stephenson's (Robert) Report on the Atmospheric Railway System. 4to. 1844. Stuart's Antiquities of Athens. vols. ii. & iii. folio: last edition. 1825. Tomlinson's Rudimentary Natural Philosophy. 12mo. 1848. Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 3 vols. 4to. 1835-40. Tredgold on the Steam Engine. 2 vols. 4to. 1838-1849. Tredgold on the Strength of Cast Iron. 8vo. 1842. Tredgold's Elementary Principles of Carpentry. 4to. 1840. Vicat on Cements, by Capt. Smith. 8vo. 1837. Vitruvius's Civil Architecture, by Wilkins: imperial 4to. 1812. Wathen's Arts, Antiquities, and Chronology of Ancient Egypt: large 8vo. 1843. Watson's Account of Mines. 8vo. 1843. Wightwick's Hints to Young Architects. 8vo. 1846. Willis's (Professor) Architectural Nomenclature. 4to. Cambridge. 4to. 1828. NOTICE. The two Parts of the work now published, it will be perceived, extend only to the letter M: the remaining portion is now in the press, and will probably be ready for publication by the end of the present year; but as various works have necessarily to be consulted for correct definitions and explanations, the time required for its completion will not, it is presumed, be deemed unreasonable. **For each Part, comprising six sheets, or 144 pages, 18. is charged; or for the two Parts, bound together, and containing 12 sheets, or 288 pages, 28. 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