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The carpenter's and joiner's repository, or, A new system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings for finishing of rooms, &c. &c. : A great variety of stair-cases, on a plan entirely new, and easy to be understood. Circular circular [sic] soffits, flewing and winding, in straight and circular walls, groins, angle brackets, circular and elliptical sky-lights; and the method of squaring and preparing their circular bars, shop fronts, &c. / By W. Pain, joiner. ; Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Oversize 1778 Pain
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pain, William, 1730?-1790?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800.
- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
- Architecture--Details--Early works to 1800.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Carpentry--Early works to 1800.
- Carpentry.
- Joinery--Early works to 1800.
- Joinery.
- Staircases.
- Stair building.
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- [30] p., LXI [i.e. 69] leaves of plates : ill., plans ; 35 cm. (fol.)
- Other Title:
- New system of lines and proportions for doors, windows, chimnies, cornices & mouldings for finishing of rooms, &c. &c.
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for the author, and sold by I. Taylor at the Bible and Crown, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane., MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
- Notes:
- "Engraved on sixty-nine copper-plates."
- Includes a total of 69 plates dated 1777 and 1778 with numbering only to 61. Some plates bear letters.
- Horizontal chain lines.
- Probably published in parts between November 1777 and May 1778. Most of the rectos of the letterpress leaves are blank. Plate XLIX omitted. The work is probably technically a quarto Cf. Brit. Architectural Library. Catalogue of Early Printed Books.
- Bookseller's advertisement on final leaf.
- 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 missing 2 plates; accession number 3301; first recorded in 1827 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as Folio 4.
- Cited in:
- Archer, J. Literature Brit. domestic architecture, 425.1
- Harris, E. British architectural books, 628
- British Architectural Library. Early printed books, 2365
- ESTC T96014
- OCLC:
- 225863157
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