The country builder's assistant : fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings: for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders, with their pedestals, bases, capitals, and entablatures. Architraves for doors, windows and chimnies. Cornices, bases and surbase mouldings for rooms. Chimney-pieces, doors and sashes with their mouldings. The construction of stairs, with their ramp and twist rails. Plan, elevation and section of a meeting house, with a pulpit at large. Plans and elevations of houses, fence posts and railings. The best method of finding the length and backing of hip rafters. : Also, the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular soffits in circular walls, &c. : Correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each. / By Asher Benjamin. ; Published according to act of Congress.