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The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : 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, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing 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 gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c.
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The practical builder, or, Workman's general assistant : 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, strait or curves, trusses for roofs, domes &c., trussing of girders, sections of flooors, &c. : the proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts, gluing 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 gentlemens and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. / by William Pain, architect and joiner ; engraved on eighty-three plates.
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London : Printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, MDCCLXXIV [1774]
Physical Description
[16] p., LXXXIII leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Local Notes
LWL 73 774P: Bookplate of Nathaniel Lloyd.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in decorated reverse calf binding. P. 5 unnumbered. Bookplate: A. Leonard Roberts.
Notes
Plates 4, 6, 9 and 69 accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
"Price 12 s. bound."--Title page.
With a final leaf of advertisements.
Variant and related titles
Practical builder
Workman's general assistant
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T96026
Archer, J. British domestic architecture, 240.1
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 640
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 2371
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Engravings - 1774.
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England London.
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