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Creator Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

Subject Terms Carpentry -- Early works to 1800.

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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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