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The carpenter's and joiner's repository, or, A new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, for finishing of rooms, &c. : a great variety of staircases, on a plan entirely new, and easy to be understood : circular circular soffits, shewing and winding, in strait and circular walls, groins, angle brackets, circular and elliptical skylights : and the method of squaring and preparing their circular bars, shop-fronts, &c.
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The carpenter's and joiner's repository, or, A new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, for finishing of rooms, &c. : a great variety of staircases, on a plan entirely new, and easy to be understood : circular circular soffits, shewing and winding, in strait and circular walls, groins, angle brackets, circular and elliptical skylights : and the method of squaring and preparing their circular bars, shop-fronts, &c. / by W. Pain, joiner ; engraved on sisty-nine copper-plates.
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London : Printed for the author, and sold by I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description
[30] p., LXI leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in quarter calf and marbled boards.
Notes
Illustrations by William Pain.
Probably published in parts between November 1777 and May 1778. Cf. British Architectural Library.
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Carpenter's and joiner's repository
New system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, for finishing of rooms, &c.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
English short title catalogue, T96014
Harris, E. British architectural books and writers, 628
British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 1478-1840, 2365
Archer, J. British domestic architecture, 425.2
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Pattern books.
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