Bibliographies
Early American Building Trades

Arbor, Marilyn. Tools and Trades of America's Past: The Mercer Collection. Doylestown, Pa.: Bucks County Historical Society, 1981.

Benjamin, Asher. Practical House Carpenter. (1830) Reprint series, vol. IV. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.

-----, Practice of Architecture. (1833) Reprint series, vol. V. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.

----, and Daniel Raynerd. The American Builder's Companion: Or, A New System of Architecture Particularly Adapted to the Present Style of Building in the United States of America. (1806) Reprint series, vol.11. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.

Bishir, Catherine, et al. Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1990.

Bowyer, Jack. Handbook of Building Crafts in Conservation. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981.

Brandau, Robert, and Ward, Eleanor. "Stone Upon Stone: The Craft of Dry Stone Masonry." Historic Preservation 27:26-29 (no.2, 1975).

The Builders Guide: Containing Lists of Prices, and Rules of Measurement for Carpenters, Bricklayers, Stone Masons, Stone Cutters, Plasterers, Slaters, Painters, Glaziers, 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Robert A. Waters, 1851.

The Builders' Magazine: Or, A Universal Dictionary for Architects, Carpenters, Masons, Bricklayers, ..... Consisting of Designs in Every Stile and Taste. London: E. Newberry, 1788.

Clark, Clifford E., Jr. "Domestic Architecture as an Index to Social History: The Romantic Revival and the Cult of Domesticity in America, 1840-1870." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 7:33-56 (no.1, 1976).

Du Vail, Nell. Domestic Technology: A Chronology of Developments. Boston: G.K Hall, 1988.

Fitchen, John. Building Construction Before Mechanization. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986.

Hazen, Edward. The Panorama of Professions and Trades. (1836) Watkins Glen, N.Y.:Century House, 1970.

Hodgson, Frederick Thomas. The Builder's Guide, and Estimator's Price Book. New York: The Industrial Company, 1882.

Lafever, Minard. The Modern Builders Guide. (1833) New York: Dover, 1969.

Levy, Richard Michael. The Professionalization of American Architects and Engineers, 1865-1917. (Unpublished dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

McKee, Harley J. Introduction to Early American Masonry: Stone, Brick, Mortar and Plaster. Washington, D.C.: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1973.

Marzio, Peter C. "Carpentry in the Southern Colonies during the Eighteenth Century with Emphasis on Maryland and Virginia." Winterthur Portfolio 7:30-57 (1972).

Moss, Roger William, Jr. Master Builders: A History of the Colonial Philadelphia Building Trades. (Unpublished dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972).

Moxon, Joseph. Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-Works. (1703) Morristown, N.J.: Astragal Press, 1989.

Scott, John S. A Dictionary of Building, 2d ed. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books, 1975. Swan, Abraham. The British Architect. (1758) New York: Da Capo Press, 1967.

Upton, Dell. "Pattern Books and Professionalism: Aspects of the Transformation of Domestic Architecture in America, 1800-1860." Winterthur Portfolio 19:107-50 (nos. 2/3, 1984).

----, and John Michael Vlach. Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1986.

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