The practical house carpenter : or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centering for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a New Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases, with many other important Articles, and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, With Explanations to each, By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Building.

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v,[31],24p.,plates(some fold) )

Edition:

The fifth edition, with additions.

Other Title:

Practical house carpenter

Place of Publication:

London : printed for I. and J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library, No. 56, High Holborn, MDCCXCIV. [1794]

Notes:

'A list of prices, for materials and labour, and labour only, .. by William Pain. 1794.' has its own pagination and register.

Plates numbered to 146, but are complete.

The plates where dated are either 1789 or 1791.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T93532.

OCLC:

642751120