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The builder's assistant, : containing the five orders of architecture, selected from the best specimens of the Greek and Roman, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection, and profile, and a variety of mouldings, modillions & foliage, on a larger scale, both enriched and plain; with working drawings, shewing their method of construction: selected from a number of beautiful example, copied from the antique. For the use of builders, carpenters, masons, plasterers, cabinet-makers, and carvers: and for whom are sixty original designs, with their plans, elevations and sections. The whole exemplified on 150 copperplates. / By John Haviland, architect, and engraved by Hugh Bridport, artist. : Vol. I-[III]
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1818 Haviland
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haviland, John, 1792-1852.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Building trades--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Building trades.
- Architecture--Details.
- Architecture.
- Buildings--Specifications.
- Buildings.
- Building--Estimates.
- Building.
- Building--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Carpentry--Prices.
- Carpentry.
- Carpentry--Estimates.
- Masonry--Prices.
- Masonry.
- Plastering--Prices.
- Plastering.
- Architecture--Orders.
- Architecture, Greek.
- Architecture, Roman.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
- Genre:
- Subscription lists (Publishing).
- Price lists.
- Physical Description:
- 3 v. : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Published by John Bioren, No. 88 Chestnut-street, and John Haviland and Hugh Bridport, No. 26, North Fifth-street., 1818-1821.
- Notes:
- Includes index of plates.
- Imprint in v.3 varies: Published by John Bioren no. 72, South Second-street.
- The first American architectural book to describe the Greek as well as the Roman orders. Cf. Hitchcock.
- "An appendix, containing the carpenters', bricklayers', and plasterers' books of prices" is on [2],1-48 p. at end of v.3 and contains; original title page and text of separately issued work: House carpenters' book of prices and rules for measuring and valuing all their different kinds of work ... Philadelphia, 1819. (Shaw & Shoemaker 48278).
- In addition to "House carpenters' book" the Appendix also includes "List of prices of the stone masons & brick layers, in Philadelphia" on p. [35]-45 and "List of prices of the master plasterers, in Philadelphia" on p. [46]-48.
- Includes 150 leaves of engraved plates executed by Haviland and engraved by Bridport.
- "List of subscribers' names" on last leaf of v.3.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy has accession numbers 3502-3504 (v.1-3); first recorded in 1827 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as Octavo 11.
- Cited in:
- Hitchcock, H.R. Amer. arch. books, no. 578
- Shaw & Shoemaker 44282
- Contains:
- House carpenters' book of prices and rules. 1819.
- OCLC:
- 227005164
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