The country builder's assistant: fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings: for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders, with their pedestals, bases, capitals, and entablatures. Architraves for doors, windows and chimnies. Cornices, bases and surbase mouldings for rooms. Chimney-pieces, doors and sashes with their mouldings. The construction of stairs, with their ramp and twist rails. Plan, elevation and section of a meeting house, with a pulpit at large. Plans and elevations of houses, fence posts and railings. The best method of finding the length and backing of hip rafters. : Also, the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular soffits in circular walls, &c. : Correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each. / By Asher Benjamin. ; Published according to act of Congress.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 7974.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Architecture.

Building--Details.

Building.

Carpentry.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages, 37 leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates (some folded) : illustrations, plans ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Greenfield--Mass. : Printed by John Denio., 1805.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 7974).

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