The practical house carpenter, or the youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; The Five Orders laid down by an entire new Scale; with Frontispieces, Chimney Pieces, Stair Cases, and Mouldings at large; with their proper embellishments for practice. Plans, elevations, and sections, For Town and Country Houses. Printed on seventy-five quarto copper plates, with explanations to face each plate. By William Pain, Author of the Golden Rule and British Palladio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([40]14p.,plates )

Edition:

The third edition, with large additions, and a list of prices.

Other Title:

Practical house carpenter,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author, No. 12, Fisher Street, Red Lion Square, Holborn, M.DCC.XC. [1790] [1791]

Notes:

Consists largely of plates, some of which are dated Dec. 1791.

In two parts; part 2 has separate letterpress titlepage lacking the edition statement.

'A list of prices, .. by William Pain. 1790' has separate pagination and register.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price Ten Shillings and Sixpence bound.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N39830.

OCLC:

642200945