The carpenter's and joiner's repository : or, a new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, Cornices, and Mouldings, for Finishing 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 Strait 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. A new edition. 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):

Building.

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 I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 56, Holborn, Nearly Opposite Great Turn-Stile, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]

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, T96015.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.