Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845.

The country builder's assistant : fully explaining, the best methods for striking regular and quirked mouldings : for drawing and working the Tuscan, Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders ... plans and elevations of houses ... also, the tracing of groins, angle brackets, circular soffits in circular walls, &c. : correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each / by Asher Benjamin. - Boston : Printed by Spotswood and Etheridge, for the author : Sold by him, and by Alexander Thomas, Worcester, 1798. - [36] p., 37 leaves of plates : plans ; 21 cm. (4to)

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E². LC copy imperfect: explanatory text for plates 9-10, 17-18, 29-33 wanting; plate 33 mutilated.

Evans 33399

ca 17001751


Architecture--Early works to 1800.

NA2515 NA2520 / .B4