| Series |
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49715. ^A478749
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| General note | Engraved title and text. Alphabet in script at foot of title page. |
| General note | Norman was a bookseller in Boston from 1794-1807. The American Antiquarian Society's copy is bound in a blue paper wrapper which is printed with the lower half of the title: The practical house carpenter ... by William Pain ... The first American from the fifth London edition ... Boston: Printed and sold by William Norman, 1797. The only known edition by Norman of Pain's work is dated 1796. Presumably this wrapper was intended to enclose a reprinting of the 1796 edition and was subsequently utilized as binding material for other publications. |
| General note | Not in Evans or Bristol. |
| 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. 49715). |
| Genre/form | Writing books. |
