Nicholson (Peter). The Carpenter's New Guide: being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery, 1st edition, London: for I. and J. Taylor, 1793. 4to (265 x 210 mm), contemporary sheep (crudely rebacked, covers worn), [3] vi-xii 76 pp., 78 engraved plates, 4 pp. advertisements at rear (not mentioned in ESTC; folding, with closed tear), damp-stain to head of first few leaves, title-page with small chip to foot, a few other marks, free endpapers excised, together with 4 other works: F. J. Bird, The American Practical Dyer's Companion, 1st edition, Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1882 (8vo, original cloth, with 170 dyed cloth samples as called for on title-page, mounted in the text as issued, occasional offsetting, rear inner hinge cracked); Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry, 4th edition, 1853 (4to, original cloth, engraved frontispiece and 53 plates, several folding, occasional spotting); George Simpson, The Anatomy of the Bones and Muscles, 1st edition, 1825 (4to, contemporary cloth, 30 lithographic plates, damp-staining, ink-stamps excised from title-page); and Riddell, The Carpenter and Joiner, c.1875 (lacking several plates) (qty: 5)

ESTC T80844 (Nicholson).

Nicholson's work is uncommon: ESTC traces four copies in UK libraries; apparently no copy seen at auction for the last 50 years.