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. : The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by one hundred and forty-eight 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 |
| Edition | The sixth edition, with additions. |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the Stone-House, no 41, South Second-Street, 1797. |
| Description | 36 unnumbered pages, 146 [i.e., 148] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32628. ^A478749 |
| General note | With 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65. |
| References | Evans 32628 |
| References | Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 898 |
| References | Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1757 |
| 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. 32628). |
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