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    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>country builder's assistant</title>
    <subTitle>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, &amp;c. : correctly engraved on thirty-seven copperplates with a printed explanation to each</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Benjamin, Asher</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1773-1845</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)</namePart>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">mau</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Boston</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Printed by Spotswood and Etheridge, for the author</publisher>
    <publisher>Sold by him, and by Alexander Thomas, Worcester</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1798</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <form authority="marcform">print</form>
    <extent>[36] p., 37 leaves of plates : plans ; 21 cm. (4to)</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by Asher Benjamin.</note>
  <note>Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E².</note>
  <note>LC copy imperfect: explanatory text for plates 9-10, 17-18, 29-33 wanting; plate 33 mutilated.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Architecture</topic>
    <topic>Early works to 1800</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="lcc">NA2515</classification>
  <classification authority="lcc">NA2520 .B4</classification>
  <relatedItem type="isReferencedBy">
    <note>Evans 33399</note>
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