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The practical house carpenter; or, Youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; as centering for groins, niches, &c. Examples for roofs, sky lights, &c. The five orders laid down by a new scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their enrichments. Plans, elevations and sections of houses for town and country, lodges, hot-houses, green-houses, stables, &c. Design for a church, with plan, elevation, and two sections; and altar-piece, and pulpit. Designs for chimney-pieces, shop-fronts, door-cases. Section of a dining-room and library. Variety of stair-cases, with many other important articles, and useful embellishments. : To which is added, a list of the price of carpenters' work. : The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, with explanations to each / by William Pain, author of The practical builder, and British palladio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30940.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Architecture.
- Building--Details.
- Building.
- Carpentry.
- Carpentry--Prices.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Architectural drawings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (16, 7 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 146 id est, 148 leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations
- Edition:
- The first American from the fifth London edition, with additions.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed and sold by William Norman, bookseller and stationer, numbers 75, Newbury-Street., 1796.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- With 146 numbered plates; two additional plates face plates 3 and 65.
- Bookseller's advertisement, pages [8], 2nd count.
- 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 30940).
- Cited in:
- Evans 30940
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 897
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1753
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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