NEVE, Richard.

The City and Country Purchaser, and Builder's Dictionary; or, the Compleat Builders Guide, shewing the qualities, quantities, proportions, and rates or value of all materials relating to building, with the best method of preparing many of them ... likewise the explanations of the terms of art used by most workmen ... The second edition, with additions.

London, printed for D. Browne ..., 1726. 8vo, pp. pp [12], xx, [284], [4] (adverts), some light browning here and there but a very good, fresh copy in contemporary panelled and stained calf, with blind stamped border and corner fleurons, upper hinge partly cracking but cords strong, spine with five raised bands and gilt red label. From the library of Martin Bowes with his Ms. ownership inscription. Second enlarged and revised edition, originally published in 1703, of 'an entirely new type of architectural book' (Harris); the earliest English language dictionary of architecture and building, 'a complete work in itself in which diversified material is brought together from many different sources and arranged alphabetically under catchwords' (Harris). Neve used the works of Moxon and Wotton and the available English translations of Vitruvius, Vignola, Scamozzi and Palladio to compile his dictionary. But there is also much first-hand information derived from builders and craftsmen in Neve's native Sussex when dealing with the building trade and building materials.This second edition was substantially enlarged, revised and corrected by an anonymous editor, probably John Ozell, auditor-general of the City and bridge accounts, and translator of Alberti's Treatise on Architecture. His editorship is marked by the use of French and Italian sources; he adds notes derived from the works of Le Clerc, Perrault, Félibien and Alberti.Harris 596; RIBA, Early Printed Books, 2262.

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