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The young carpenter's assistant; or, A system of architecture, adapted to the style of building in the United States. / By Owen Biddle, house carpenter, and teacher of architectural drawing, Philadelphia.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1805 Biddle
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biddle, Owen, 1774-1806.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural drawing--United States.
- Architectural drawing.
- Architectural drawing--19th century.
- Architecture--Details.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Designs and plans.
- Architecture--Dictionaries.
- Architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Architecture--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Subscribers' lists.
- Physical Description:
- 61, [1] p. (last page blank), XLIV leaves of plates (2 folded) : plans ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- System of architecture, adapted to the style of building in the United States
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Benjamin Johnson, no. 31, Market-Street., 1805.
- Notes:
- Some illustrations signed by O. Biddle; some engravings signed by C. Tiebout, W. Hooker, W. Kneass, and B. Tanner.
- Some plates numbered with Arabic numerals; others with Roman.
- "A dictionary of terms used in architecture."--p. [57]-61.
- "Subscriber's [sic] names."--p. [63]-64.
- 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 number 4181; first recorded in 1827 Carpenters' Company Library Catalogue as Quarto 9.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 8017
- Shaw & Shoemaker 8018
- Hitchcock, H. R. Amer. architectural books, 176
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 1768
- OCLC:
- 226378525
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