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; an 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. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by one hundred and forty-eight copper-plates, with explanations to each. / By William Pain ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Building--Early works to 1800.

Building.

Architecture--Details.

Carpentry.

Building--Details.

Penn Provenance:

Brock, Charles Nonnater (fl. Phi. 1834) (autograph)

Physical Description:

36 unnumbered pages, 147, that is, 148 leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 24 cm (4to)

Edition:

The sixth edition, with additions.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the Stonehouse, no. 41, South Second street, 1797.

Local Notes:

Plates 87-146 upside down and in reverse order and inserted between plates 44 and 45.

Cited in:

Evans 32628

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1757

Contains:

Youth's instructor.

OCLC:

1071171