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1. The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

The builder's companion, and workman's general assistant : demonstrating, after the most easy and practical method, all the principal rules of architecture, from the plan to the ornamental finish, illustrated with a greater number of useful and familiar examples than any work of that kind hitherto published, with clear and ample instructions, annexed to each subject or number, on the same plate ... : also, the figure, description, and use of a new-invented joint-rule ... : the whole correctly engraven on seventy-seven folio copper plates / from the designs of William Pain ...

Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLVIII [1758]
Physical Description:: [6], 4 pages, [76] leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations ; 40 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling : shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ... / by Joseph Moxon, ...

Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : applied to the arts of smithing, joinery, carpentry, turning, bricklayery : to which is added Mechanick dyalling : shewing how to draw a true sun-dyal on any given plane ... / by Joseph Moxon, ...

Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1703
Physical Description:: [viii], 287, [305]-352 p., [26] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The practical house carpenter : or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture ... to which is added, a list of prices and materials for labour, labour only, and day prices ... / by William Pain ...

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1799
Physical Description:: v, [30], 24 p., [152] leaves of plates (1 folded) : chiefly ill., plans ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Every man a compleat builder, or, Easy rules and proportions for drawing and working the several parts of architecture ... / the whole nearly engraved on 51 copper plates ; compiled by the late Edward Oakley ... ; to which is annexed, a plan, elevation, and section of the carpenter's work, erected to support the center-arch of Black-Fryers-Bridge.

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Creator:: Oakley, Edward, active 18th century
Date:: 1774
Physical Description:: 32 p., [52] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The British carpenter, or, a treatise on carpentry : containing the most concise and authentick rules of that art ... / by Francis Price.

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Creator:: Price, Francis, d. 1753
Date:: 1768
Physical Description:: [8], 72 p., [64] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. The carpenters companion : being an accurate and compleat treatise of carpenters works : in which is contained various sorts of timber-floors, partitions, bridges ... : to which is added, the five orders of architecture, in a more easy and concise method than any yet published ... / by James Smith.

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Creator:: Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:: 1733
Physical Description:: [1], x, 11-31 p., [41] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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 : ... rules of carpentry ... : with plans and elevations of gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1789
Physical Description:: [20] p., 83 plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Mechanick exercises, or, the doctrine of handy-works ... / by Joseph Moxon.

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Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Physical Description:: [4], 234, [8] p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. The carpenter's treasure : a collection of designs for temples : with their plans, gates, doors, rails, and bridges, in the gothic taste : with the centres at large, for striking gothic curves and mouldings ... : neatly engraved on sixteen plates / from the original drawings of N. Wallis.

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Creator:: Wallis, N
Date:: [1773]
Physical Description:: [4] p., [16] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A specimen of ancient carpentry : consisting of variety of designs for roofs ... : collected by James Smith : to which are added designs of frontispieces to doors, gateways, piers ... : & other useful decorations never before published by Jones ; the whole illustrated with 66 copper plates nearly engraven.

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Creator:: Smith, James, writer on carpentry
Date:: 1736
Physical Description:: [5], [3], [66] leaves of plates in various pagings : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Mechanick exercises, or, The doctrine of handy-works : began Jan. 1, 1677 : and intended to be continued monthly / by Joseph Moxon.

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Creator:: Moxon, Joseph, 1627–1691
Date:: 1677-1680
Physical Description:: 1-48, 51-114, 119-242, [243-250] p., [18] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The carpenters rule, or, A booke shewing many plain waies, truly to measure ordinarie timber, and other extraordinarie sollids, or timber : with a detection of sundrie great errors, generally committed by carpenters and others in measuring of timber; tending much to the buyers great losse : published especially for the good of the Companie of Carpenters in London, and other also; ... / by Richard More.

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Creator:: More, Richard (Carpenter)
Date:: 1602
Physical Description:: [8], 56 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The carpenter's new guide : being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery ... : the whole founded on true geometrical principles : ... and fully exemplified on seventy-eight copper-plates, correctly engraved by the author : including some observations and calculation on the strength of timber / by Peter Nicholson.

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Creator:: Nicholson, Peter, 1765–1844
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: xii, 76 p., [78] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Designs in carpentry : containing domes, trussed roofs, flooring, trussing of beams, angle-brackets, and cornices / by Abraham Swan.

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Creator:: Swan, Abraham
Date:: 1759
Physical Description:: [1], 8, [55] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. 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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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Physical Description:: [30] p., LXI leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 37 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. The builder's sketch book, or, The youth's pocket companion : containing a great variety of out-line sketches in carpentry and architecture ... : to which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, and labour only.

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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Date:: 1793
Physical Description:: [42], 52 p., 48 plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts