The practical house carpenter; or, Youth's instructor : containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; as centering for groins, niches, &c. Examples for roofs, sky lights, &c. The five orders laid down by a new scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their enrichments. Plans, elevations and sections of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c. Design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections; and altar-piece, and pulpit. Designs for chimney-pieces, shop-fronts, door-cases. Section of a dining-room and library. Variety of stair-cases, with many other important articles, and useful embellishments. : To which is added, a list of the price of carpenters' work. : The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each, / by William Pain, author of The practical builder, and British palladio.

Author/creator Pain, William
Other author Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver.
Format Electronic
EditionThe first American from the fifth London edition, with additions.
Publication InfoBoston : Printed and sold by William Norman, bookseller and stationer, no. 75, Newbury-Street, 1796.
Description16, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 146 [i.e., 148] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)
Supplemental ContentEvans Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. First series ; no. 30940. ^A478749
General noteWith 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [8], 2nd count.
References Evans 30940
References Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 897
References Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1753
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. 30940).
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.

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