The carpenter's pocket directory; : containing the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts, as floors, roofs in ledgment, their lengths and backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; trussing-girders, partitions, and bridges, with abutments; centering for arches, vaults, &c. cutting stone ceilings, groins, &c. with their moulds; centers for drawing Gothic arches, ellipses, &c. &c. : With the plan and sections of a barn. : Engraved on twenty-four plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful work of the kind yet published. / By William Pain, architect and carpenter, author of The practical builder, The carpenter's and joiner's repository, and The British Palladio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32627.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Architecture.

Carpentry.

Framing (Building).

Building--Details.

Building.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages, 24 leaves of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Published by J.H. Dobelbower and J. Thackara., 1797.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

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 32627).

Cited in:

Evans 32627

Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 895

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1756

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