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
EditionThe fourth edition, / revised and corrected by the author William Pain, architect and joiner.
Publication InfoBoston : Printed and sold by John Norman, no. 75 Newbury Street, M,DCC,XCII. [1792]
Description8 pages, lxxxiii leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm (4to)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 25956. ^A478749
General noteEdition 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 formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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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