Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
Title:
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.
Alternate Title(s):
Carpenter's and joiner's repository
Published / Created:
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.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrations by William Pain.
Subject Terms:
Carpentry -- Early works to 1800. | Joinery -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800. | Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Early works to 1800. | Taylor, I. -- Publisher. | Etching -- Specimens -- 1778.
Form/Genre:
Pattern books.
Contributors:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, ill.