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An improved and enlarged edition of Biddle's Young carpenter's assistant; : being a complete system of architecture for carpenters, joiners, and workmen in general, adapted to the style of building in the United States.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1833 Havilan
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haviland, John, 1792-1852.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--United States.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architecture--Details.
- Architectural drawing--United States.
- Architectural drawing.
- Physical Description:
- 52 p., 64 leaves of plates (2 folded) : plans (metal cuts) ; 29 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised and corrected, with several additional articles, and forty-eight new designs, chiefly of full size working drawings of modern finish, in detail. Particularly adapted for country use. / By John Haviland, architect.
- Other Title:
- Young carpenter's assistant
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia; : Published by M'Carty and Davis--171 Market Street., 1833.
- Notes:
- "A dictionary of terms used in architecture": p. 49-52.
- Plates engraved by Cornelius Tiebout, William Hooker, Joseph Yeager, and William Kneass after Owen Biddle and John Haviland.
- Running title: The young carpenter's assistant.
- An updated edition of Owen Biddle's work, first issued in Philadelphia in 1805 with the title: The young carpenter's assistant, or, A system of architecture, adapted to the style of building in the United States. ; Haviland's reissue of Biddle's work included a new introduction and an additional 20 plates "particularly adapted for country use." ; Hitchcock notes that Biddle's intention was to define his title as suitable for work in the United States, where, by this time, existed a building style clearly distinct from that of England.
- This edition has new preface and plates 15-20, 25-28, 31, 32, 53-60 by Haviland.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert L. Raley/Carpenters' Company Collection.
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in contemporary full mottled leather.
- Athenaeum copy: Binder's title: Carpenter's assistant.
- Athenaeum has copy of 1805 edition.
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. architectural books, 582
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