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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Creator:: Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Title(s):: 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.
Additional Title(s):: Practical builder
Workman's general assistant
Published/Created:: 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.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NA2515 .P35 1774+ Oversize
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4704329
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Plates 4, 6, 9 and 69 accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
"Price 12 s. bound."--Title page.
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
With a final leaf of advertisements.
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.
Subject Terms:: Architecture -- Design and plans -- Early works to 1800.
Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800.
Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
Building -- Early works to 1800.
Lloyd, Nathaniel, 1867-1933 -- Bookplate.
Roberts, A. Leonard -- Bookplate.
Taylor, I. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:: Engravings -- 1774.
Publishers' advertisements.
Pattern books.
Booksellers' advertisements.
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