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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.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, author.
Contributor:
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?, engraver.
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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