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.
Alternate Title(s):
Practical builder
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.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates 4, 6, 9 and 69 accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
Subject Terms:
Architecture -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800. | Architecture -- Design and plans -- Early works to 1800. | Building -- Early works to 1800. | Taylor, I. -- Publisher. | Roberts, A. Leonard -- Bookplate. | Lloyd, Nathaniel, 1867-1933 -- Bookplate.