Richard Beckett

Beckett's Provincial Builders' Price Book and Surveyor's Guide. Giving the Leading Data on which the Prices are Computed. Also Modes of Measurement, Mainly Taken from Recommendations of the Manchester Society of Architects, and the Master Builders of Yorkshire. With Tables of Weights, Measurements, Wages, &c., Forming an Office the Building Trades. Compiled by Richard Beckett, Contractor and Builder of Over Thirty Years' Experience. To which are Added: The Employers' Liability Act of 1880. Sections and Schedules of the Liverpool and Manchester Building Acts. Instructions with Schedules for Parsonage Houses, as Required by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Queen Anne's Bounty Office. Form of Contract Agreed to by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the National Association of Master Builders. Form of Apprentice's Indenture Recommended by the National Associations of Master Builders. Wages Table for Hour System, Giving Each Eighth of a Penny. Concise Timber Measures. Sundry Formulae, Recipes, Memoranda, Memorabilia