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The builder's assistant : fully explaining the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings, for drawing and working the ... orders ... / by Asher Benjamin.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1800 Benjami
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural drawing.
- Architecture--Details.
- Architecture.
- Carpentry.
- Physical Description:
- [36] p., 37 leaves of plates ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- 3d ed.
- Other Title:
- Country builder's assistant
- Place of Publication:
- Greenfield [Mass.] : printed by Thomas Dickman, 1800.
- Notes:
- Earlier eds. published as: The country builder's assistant.
- "For drawings and workings Tuscan, 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 soffit in circular walls, etc." -- title page
- "Correctly engraved on thirty seven copperplates, with a printed explanation to each." -- title page.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mrs. J.W. McPherson, 1990.
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock 113
- OCLC:
- 8198617
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