The practical builder : or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing Jambs, the Preparing and Making their Soffits. Rules of carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, Straight or Curved. -- Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. -- Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their General and Particular Parts. -- Glewing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their Ramp and Twist Rails; Fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Cielings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the Newest Taste. -- With Plans and Elevations of Gentlemens' and Farm-Houses, Yards, Barns, &c. A new edition, revised and corrected by the author William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building.

Carpentry.

Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

Architecture, Domestic--Designs and plans.

Architecture, Domestic.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

5 pages, 15 unnumbered pages,LXXXIIIplates ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

With a final leaf of advertisements.

Price from imprint: Price 12s. bound.

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, T121357.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.