The carpenter's pocket directory : containing, the best methods of framing timber buildings of all figures and dimensions, with their several parts, as floors; roofs in ledgment, their Lengths and Backings; trussed roofs, spires, and domes; Trussing-Girders, Partitions, and Bridges, with Abutments; Centering for Arches, Vaults, &c. cutting Stone Ceilings, Groins, &c. with their Moulds; Centers for drawing Gothic Arches, Ellipses, &c. &c. With the plan and sections of a barn. Engraved on twenty-four plates, with explanations, forming the most complete and useful Work of the Kind yet published. By William Pain, Architect and Carpenter, Author of the Practical Builder, and the Carpenter's and Joiner's Repository.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carpentry--Early works to 1800.

Carpentry.

Architecture--Designs and plans.

Architecture.

Framing (Building)--Early works to 1800.

Framing (Building).

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([28]p.,XXIV plates )

Other Title:

Carpenter's pocket directory

Place of Publication:

London : printed for I. Taylor, No. 56, nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]

Notes:

Price from imprint: price Four Shillings, bound.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T118288.

OCLC:

642313389