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The country builder's assistant: --containing-- a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture; which will be particularly useful, to country workmen in general. : Illustrated with new and useful designs ... Correctly engraved on thirty copper plates with a printed explanation to each
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The country builder's assistant: [microform] : --containing-- a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture; which will be particularly useful, to country workmen in general. : Illustrated with new and useful designs ... Correctly engraved on thirty copper plates with a printed explanation to each. / By Asher Benjamin.
Published
Printed at Greenfield, (Massachusetts): by Thomas Dickman., M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]
Physical Description
[30] p., 30 leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Notes
"This is the earliest original American work on architecture"--Hitchcock.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ (D4 verso blank).
Plates drawn by Asher Benjamin. There is no explanatory text for plates 25-27.
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31797).
Format
Books / Microforms
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 31797
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United States Massachusetts Greenfield.
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