The carpenter's and joiner's repository : or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings, For Finishing of Rooms, &c. &c. a Great Variety of Stair-Cases, On a Plan entirely New, and easy to be understood. Circular Circular Soffits, flewing and winding, in straight and circular Walls, Groins, Angle Brackets, circular and elliptical Sky-Lights; and the Method of Squaring and Preparing their circular Bars, Shop Fronts, &c. By W. Pain, joiner. Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Details.

Architecture.

Joinery--Early works to 1800.

Joinery.

Carpentry--Early works to 1800.

Carpentry.

Physical Description:

30 unnumbered pages,plates ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author; and sold by I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Plates numbered to 61, but are complete.

Plates dated 1777 and 1778.

With a final leaf of advertisements.

Horizontal chain lines.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T96014.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.