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The country builder's assistant: --containing-- a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture; which will be particularly useful, to country workmen in general. : Illustrated with new and useful designs ... Correctly engraved on thirty copper plates with a printed explanation to each. / By Asher Benjamin.
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 31797 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 31797.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Architecture.
- Building--Details--Drawings.
- Building.
- Carpentry.
- Genre:
- Architectural drawings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 unnumbered pages, 30 leaves of plates (2 folded)) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Printed at Greenfield, (Massachusetts) : by Thomas Dickman., M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "This is the earliest original American work on architecture"--Hitchcock.
- Plates drawn by Asher Benjamin. There is no explanatory text for plates 25-27.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 31797).
- Cited in:
- Evans 31797
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 111
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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