The Compendious Measurer; being a brief, yet comprehensive, treatise on mensuration and practical geometry. With an Introduction to Decimal and Duodecimal Arithmetic. Adapted to the use of schools and practice. The second edition, corrected and enlarged.

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An abridgement of A treatise on mensuration, both in theory and practice, first published in 1770. First edition 1786, BL and Huntington only. This edition, BL, NT; Columbia, NYPL. 'Although antiquarian booksellers have long indulged themselves (and encouraged their customers) in the belief that the cuts [by Bewick] from the Treatise were also employed in Hutton's Compendious Measurer... this is largely wishful thinking; no more than a handful of small diagrams made the transition' (Tattersfied, 2, p. 682).'Practical Geometry' includes 'Of the carpenter's rule', Timber measuring', Artificers works' (bricklayers, plasterers, painters, glaziers, &c), 'Vaulted and arched roofs', &c.