The country builder's assistant : --containing-- a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture; which will be particularly useful, to country workmen in general. : Illustrated with new and useful designs ... Correctly engraved on thirty copper plates with a printed explanation to each. / By Asher Benjamin.
| Author/creator | Benjamin, Asher |
| Other author | Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845, illustrator. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Printed at Greenfield, (Massachusetts) : By Thomas Dickman, M,DCC,XCVII. [1797] |
| Description | 30 unnumbered pages, 30 leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations ; 20 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31797. ^A478749 |
| General note | "This is the earliest original American work on architecture"--Hitchcock. |
| General note | Plates drawn by Asher Benjamin. There is no explanatory text for plates 25-27. |
| References | Evans 31797 |
| References | Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 111 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31797). |
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