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, straight or curved; trusses for roofs, doomes [sic], &c. trussing of girders, sections of floors, &c. The proportion of the five orders, in their general and particular parts:--glewing 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 gentlemen's and farm-houses, barns, &c. : Engraved on eighty-three plates.
| Author/creator | Pain, William |
| Other author | Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | The fourth edition, / revised and corrected by the author William Pain, architect and joiner. |
| Publication Info | Boston : Printed and sold by John Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street, M,DCC,XCII. [1792] |
| Description | 8 pages, lxxxiii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm (4to) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25956. ^A478749 |
| General note | Edition statement transposed; precedes "Engraved on eighty-three plates." |
| References | Evans 25956 |
| References | Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 896 |
| References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2474 |
| 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. 25956). |
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