The practical builder, or Workman's general assistant [microform] ; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; as the use of the tramel for groins, angle-brackets, niches, &c. semi-circular arches on flewing jambs, the preparing and making their soffits. : Rules of carpentry; to find the length and backing of hips, straight or curved; trusses for roofs, doomes [sic], &c. trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. The proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts:--glewing of columns, stair-cases with their ramp and twist rails; fixing the carriages, newels, &c. frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings, cornices, architraves, &c. : In the newest taste; with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c. : Engraved on eighty-three plates
- Author:
- Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
- Published:
- Boston : Printed and sold by John Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street, M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
- Edition:
- The fourth edition, / revised and corrected by the author William Pain, architect and joiner.
- Physical Description:
- 8 pages, lxxxiii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm (4to)
- Additional Creators:
- Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
- Access Online:
- ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Subject(s):
- Note:
- Edition statement transposed; precedes "Engraved on eighty-three plates."
ONLINE VERSION AVAILABLE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Other Forms:
- Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.
- Reproduction Note:
- Microopaque. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1955-1983. 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25956).
- Reviewed/Cited In:
- Evans, C. American bibliography, 25956
Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 896
Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2474 - Access Online:
- ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
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