The builder's pocket-companion: shewing an easy and practical method for laying down lines, for all sorts of arches and curves used in house-building, ship-building, gardening &c. : Also to make the centers or ribs for vaults or ceilings, and brackets for coves, either regular of irregular. Together with true and concise rules to find the lengths, bevels, and moulds for the back of a hip, in any kind of roofs, whether square or bevel, hexagon, or pentagon, &c. let their rafters be strait, or curves of different sorts. To which are added, the five orders of columns, with their entablatures and pedestals, the proportions whereof are taken from the immortal Andrew Palladio, and laid down after Mr. Halfpenny's practical method; with several other useful problems, never before printed / By Michael Hoare, carpenter [psued.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halfpenny, William, -1755.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural drawing.

Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Building.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 53 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 13 plates ; 4|o

Edition:

The third edition, corrected.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate Hill, 1747.

Notes:

Head-pieces and end-pieces.

Printer's list at beginning and end. Manuscript notes following last page.

This item is a later edition of the item Park lists as A 20, the original 1728 edition of this work which apparently was issued under Halfpenny's own name.

Refer from Hoare, Michael, pseud.

"Halfpenny, William, alias Michael Hoare ... who styles himself architect and carpenter on the title-page of some of his works ... "--D.N.B., v. 8, p. 924.

OCLC:

80348591